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Docking Bay 14 Mars Passenger Ship Book Version In his book "The Exploration Of Mars" written after the Colliers series, von Braun displayed a markedly different design of ship to serve as a passenger vessel to Mars. Much had changed in just two years.
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The ship retained the outer propellant tanks for departure from earth and a spherical section for the personnel living quarters like the Moon and Mars passenger ships before it. However, he enclosed the return to earth fuel/oxidizer tanks in an outer shield.
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Von Braun had decided that protection would be necessary for the return propellant tanks. He must have realized that they would need to be protected from any possibility of damage in the several years they would be in space before they would be needed to come home. So he arranged it so they would be carried inside the center fuselage.
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This enclosed center fuselage gave the ship a different look from either the Moon passenger ship, or even the previous Mars passenger ship design. You could see that Von Braun was evolving and improving his designs. However, little specific graphic information was given in the book about the details of this, his latest Mars Passenger Spaceship design.
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Links to Additional information available in the Trade Zone.
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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