VINCE LAVIN AND MARS SPACE VEHICLE WITH WORLD AND MOON MODELS
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Tag: Spacecraft
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Description: ELECTRIC SPACE VEHICLE MODEL FOR 8 MAN MARS EXPEDITION
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Boeing Print
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MSFC-77-SPS-4512
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Image source: Mike Acs
S73-31922
S73-31922 (1973) — An artist’s concept illustrating a cutaway view of the general arrangement of the Skylab Rescue Command Module (CM). The standard Skylab CM accommodates a crew of three with storage lockers on the aft bulkhead for resupply of experiment film and other equipment as well as the return of exposed film, data tapes and experiment samples. To convert the standard CM to a rescue vehicle, the storage lockers are removed and replaced with two crew couches in order to seat five crewmen. The rescue CM would then be launched with a crew of two.
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Space Rescue!
After escape from damaged ship, rescue is possible from this “lifeboat’ of space.
Space World
December 1964, VOL. A-14
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Early Program Development
This artist’s concept from 1962 show a three hundred-sixty ton spaceship, powered by a forty-megawatt nuclear-electric power plant, transporting a three-man crew to Mars. As envisioned by Marshall Space Flight Center engineers, a five-ship convoy would make the round trip journey in about five hundred days.
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255-GRC-1983-C-02127
Image credit: Convair
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255-GRC-1983-C-02128
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Modular Propellant Tankage Concept
Shown on this chart is an artist’s rendition of a tug configuration which is made up of individual propellant modules and thus provides extreme operational flexibility. The stage is designed to be compatible with a variable number of propellant modules which contain oxidizer, fuel and pressurants. The basic propulsion platform includes engines, control, avionics and primary structure. In concept, the configuration has the option of staging tanks for extremely high performance.
Although this modular concept is extremely versatile, it has a lower mass fraction than one which is designed for a single performance capability.
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