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Docking Bay 10 Moon Passenger Ship Werner von Braun dreamed in a dramatic style.
In "Conquest of the Moon," von Braun's first detailed plan for actual exploration of the moon, he proposed attacking the Moon by sending no less than a 50 man expedition to explore it. He started with the idea of sending three enormous spacecraft to carry the team and spend weeks exploring its surface. Much like an expedition into the 'Outback', he suggested giving them enough food and supplies to let them explore hundreds of square miles in over six full weeks.
The ship he designed to carry them there was this "Moon Passenger Ship." Fully capable of sustaining his expedition for weeks, this spaceship inspired many future engineers and pointed the way toward the much more economical path that man would eventually take when he really went to the moon for the first time.
In the expedition, there would be two passenger ships and one cargo ship. Since the surface of the moon was unknown at the time, von Braun employed the ingenious solution of a large extendible center pole with which to support the main weight of the passenger ship when it landed on the moon. It would also be equipped with four outrigger legs for stability.
Measuring over 160 feet long the ships would carry their return fuel in a central location and leave the larger outside fuel tanks on the moon when they returned to Earth. These were state of the art designs for deep space, using 1952 chemical propulsion technology. The ships look a great deal like skeletons. The entire living quarters were enclosed in the sphere that sat atop the ship.
While as Spaceship designs go, they may look dated today, they are important landmarks on our way to the stars.
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A Precision Design Drawing of this Spaceship -----------------------------------------
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Complete background information is available in the Spaceship Handbook
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This Spaceship is also featured in “Ad Astra per Aspera”
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