Project Horizon at Astronautix
Image credit: US Army
Image source: Project Horizon Reports, NASM
Lander & Crew Return Vehicle
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Outpost Facilities
The HORIZON outpost as it appears in late 1965, after about six months of construction effort. The basic building block for the outpost will be cylindrical metal tanks ten feet in diameter and twenty feet in length.
Project Horizon at Astronautix
Image credit: US Army
Image source: Project Horizon Reports, NASM
Propellant Transfer
Conceptual view of the operations in the equatorial earth orbit. The operation in orbit is principally one of propellant transfer and it not an assembly job. The vehicle being fueled is the third stage of a SATURN II with a lunar landing and return vehicle attached. The third stage of the SATURN II was used in the combination into orbit and has thus expended its propellants. This stage is fueled into orbit by a detachment of approximately ten men after which the vehicle then proceeds on the moon.
Project Horizon at Astronautix
Image credit: United States Army
Image source: Project Horizon Reports, NASM
Horizon
Scientists differ on whether sites should be underground in a lunar crater or “ocean” or if they should be blasted out of the sides of mountains.
The Next Fifty Years On The Moon
by Erik Bergaust
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974
Project Horizon at Astronautix
Image credit: US Army
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