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Docking Bay 11 Moon Cargo Ship For his first plan of a Moon expedition, as described in the Colliers series of Articles in 1953, Von Braun designed a moon cargo ship that was similar to the passenger ship that was also presented. Like the passenger ship, the Cargo ship was 160 feet high and would land on its center telescopic landing leg. It too would jettison its main propellant tanks once upon arriving on the moon.
However, the cargo ship was different in that it carried no return fuel tanks. It meant that the Cargo ship was not coming back. It would be left on the moon's surface after the expedition's mission was complete.
In the place of the return fuel tanks was a large voluminous cargo hold where the expedition would carry their supplies. This was to be an ambitious expedition taking six weeks to explore the moon and they were planning on carrying some significant material. Besides all the food, water, Oxygen and miscellaneous materials they would need, Von Braun added vehicles and two Quonset huts!
These huts would be made out of the Cargo hold itself. They would be pressurized and serve for living quarters while the expedition was on the moon.
After its mission was completed, the cargo ship would have been left standing on the moon when the expedition returned to Earth.
Thus, the cargo ship stands as another step in ‘modern’ spaceship development, the first one way, non-reusable spaceship design.
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A Precision Design Drawing of this Spaceship -----------------------------------------
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