1968 Manned Mars Lander by wblack
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North American Rockwell, 1968 Design, Manned Mars Lander, for the Boeing Integrated Program Plan Interplanetary Space Craft.
This is a WIP for my next set, the Boeing Manned Mars Mission using NERVA stages. This one came out of the Integrated Program Plan. The Interplanetary Crew Vehicle uses RNS (Re-usable Nuclear Shuttle) stages.
Future planned posts will include an Orion Mars mission – or possibly more than one – there is an array of the 10-meter designs for six, eight, ten, and twenty-four-man crewed vehicles, all intended to be launched by Saturn-V boosters and assembled on-orbit … I’m also considering materials for a combined NERVA/Nuclear-Electric mission Mars mission.
As always, thanks for all of your encouragement, thoughtful comments, and support.
Comments (16)
shayhurs
Great job as always. Love the accuracy.
NefariousDrO
Wow, you continue to amaze and astound me with these super-realistic spacecraft/landing craft designs from a previous age! The details and realism in this model and these views of said model are wonderful!
plasmid
Excellent models.
Bambam131
Very impressive modeling and presentation. Always an inspiration to see your work. I am somewhat curious as to how the astronauts would enter and exit the Ascent stage, would it be from the inside or outside. Keep them coming my friend!!! All the best, David
mnmpm
outstanding creation
texboy
most impressive, as always!
geirla
Excellent! I really like that conical lower stage for habitat use.
wblack
Hi David, You’ve touched on the main hurdle in developing these historical re-creations. Many of these projects consist of back-of-the-envelope level technical reports with roughed out diagrams. Details are often hard to pin-down – and in some cases they do not exist. The diagrams I’ve been able to acquire “seem” to indicate an internal vertical access tube running alongside the ascent stage, connecting the ascent-module and descent-lander internal habitat-module, but the diagram is very crude and many details are either notably sketchy – or missing altogether -- I could not actually locate the hatch itself in any diagram – or any real indication if the connection was pressurized or not --there was merely a blank area where the vertical access tube ended – so, after my experience with rebuilding the LANTR Lunar Shuttle seven times -- I deemed it wiser to leave the detail off till I can determine exactly where it might connect, and what type of connection it is.
ShawnDriscoll
Great detail and texturing.
peedy
Fantastic modeling! Corrie
flavia49
outstanding work!
WPL2
That's an amazing piece of work! The textures and detailing are fantastic.
pdq1234
Its too bad NASA didn't do these missions way back in the seventy's like they should of. I suspect 40 years latter and many billions of dollars spent, a real maned mars mission will end up very similar to what was envisioned so many lost years ago. Oh and for more detailed information goto smaller library's, used book stores and look for books made in the sixty's they had detailed information in some of them, I remember one book I used to have it was published in the mid sixty's and had a lot of detail on many of the planned ideas, like mars landers and nerva rockets, etc.
SIGMAWORLD
Great work!
dcmstarships
that is one sweet design! I remember seeing an illustration of it by Robert McCall from one of his spaceship art books form the 1970's.
CecilNewby
@geometry dash online The design is amazing.