fut-lnr_v_bw_o_n (ca. 1960-62 Aerojet-General Corp. photo no. 1161 505 & poss. 861-269 eq)
“SPACESHIPS FOR 12 MAN EXPEDITION ON MOON. “Umbrella” on suit protects wearer from solar radiation.”
“After Apollo – Exploring the Moon
After the Apollo spacecraft lands its three-man crew on the moon and brings them back safely, what’s the next step in lunar exploration?
A 12-man expedition to make a 500-mile research trip across the surface of the moon is proposed by Allyn B. Hazard, an engineer at Aerojet’s subsidiary, Space-General Corporation.
It could be done in this decade, he says.
The spacemen would travel to the moon in four rockets – three round-trip passenger vehicles, the other a one-way cargo ship with 30,000 pounds of supplies to support the men and their scientific studies.
Each of the astronauts would be a highly trained scientist or technologist in some particular field; some would be experts in several areas. On the moon, only four of them would make the trans-lunar journey, while the others remained at the rockets’ landing site to conduct research.
The four explorers would wear special tub-like spacesuits in which they would have to live and work, eat and sleep, for the entire trip. They couldn’t get out of the suits because of the airlessness and super-cold of the moon.
That’s the reason for the suit’s peculiar shape – the wearer can slip his arms out of the sleeves to eat, adjust controls, make notes, or even to scratch his nose.
Umbilical connections would link each suit to a tractor-like “moon mobile” carrying the oxygen and life support system for two men. These would carry their passengers across the lunar landscape at five miles an hour. A 500 mile journey (for instance, from Crater Gruithuisen to Crater Aristarchus and back) would take 10 earth days. It would be made during the 330-hour lunar night, to avoid exposing the men to the sun’s radiation.”
~7.5" x 10". The right edge has been trimmed, neatly at least.
All of the above is from the 1962 edition of “AEROJET-GENERAL SPACELINES AND ROCKET REVIEW”. Conscientiously made possible/available by Mr. John Sisson, at his absolutely WONDERFUL “Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera” blogspot:
Specifically, the image (from the publication):
With a fantastic breakout of crew assignments, equipment, vehicle specifics, etc:
The amazingly detailed work is rich in details I’ve never seen before. Makes me wonder how big the original painting must have been. And if it still exists. Most importantly & most disappointingly, by whose hand…as I expect we’ll never know.
Nice touch of the foreground (non-return cargo carrier) vehicle’s oppositely canted left-side footpads, both partially resting on lunar boulders, demonstrating their brilliant hinged design. Speaking of boulders, one of the three round trip passenger carriers (in the the near background) narrowly missed, and is partially straddling one much larger. One of the hazards of landing tail-first.
Allyn Hazard. Like Clarence when seeing the image of George Bailey the first time, from “It’s a Wonderful Life”:
“It’s a good face. I like it.”:
siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_393495
Credit: Smithsonian Institution Archives website
Continue to Rest In Peace Good Sir:
www.findagrave.com/memorial/87516589/allyn-b-hazard
Credit: “Find a Grave” website
fut-lnr_v_bw_o_n (ca. 1960-62 Aerojet-General Corp. photo no. 1161 505 & poss. 861-269 eq)
“SPACESHIPS FOR 12 MAN EXPEDITION ON MOON. “Umbrella” on suit protects wearer from solar radiation.”
“After Apollo – Exploring the Moon
After the Apollo spacecraft lands its three-man crew on the moon and brings them back safely, what’s the next step in lunar exploration?
A 12-man expedition to make a 500-mile research trip across the surface of the moon is proposed by Allyn B. Hazard, an engineer at Aerojet’s subsidiary, Space-General Corporation.
It could be done in this decade, he says.
The spacemen would travel to the moon in four rockets – three round-trip passenger vehicles, the other a one-way cargo ship with 30,000 pounds of supplies to support the men and their scientific studies.
Each of the astronauts would be a highly trained scientist or technologist in some particular field; some would be experts in several areas. On the moon, only four of them would make the trans-lunar journey, while the others remained at the rockets’ landing site to conduct research.
The four explorers would wear special tub-like spacesuits in which they would have to live and work, eat and sleep, for the entire trip. They couldn’t get out of the suits because of the airlessness and super-cold of the moon.
That’s the reason for the suit’s peculiar shape – the wearer can slip his arms out of the sleeves to eat, adjust controls, make notes, or even to scratch his nose.
Umbilical connections would link each suit to a tractor-like “moon mobile” carrying the oxygen and life support system for two men. These would carry their passengers across the lunar landscape at five miles an hour. A 500 mile journey (for instance, from Crater Gruithuisen to Crater Aristarchus and back) would take 10 earth days. It would be made during the 330-hour lunar night, to avoid exposing the men to the sun’s radiation.”
~7.5" x 10". The right edge has been trimmed, neatly at least.
All of the above is from the 1962 edition of “AEROJET-GENERAL SPACELINES AND ROCKET REVIEW”. Conscientiously made possible/available by Mr. John Sisson, at his absolutely WONDERFUL “Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera” blogspot:
Specifically, the image (from the publication):
With a fantastic breakout of crew assignments, equipment, vehicle specifics, etc:
The amazingly detailed work is rich in details I’ve never seen before. Makes me wonder how big the original painting must have been. And if it still exists. Most importantly & most disappointingly, by whose hand…as I expect we’ll never know.
Nice touch of the foreground (non-return cargo carrier) vehicle’s oppositely canted left-side footpads, both partially resting on lunar boulders, demonstrating their brilliant hinged design. Speaking of boulders, one of the three round trip passenger carriers (in the the near background) narrowly missed, and is partially straddling one much larger. One of the hazards of landing tail-first.
Allyn Hazard. Like Clarence when seeing the image of George Bailey the first time, from “It’s a Wonderful Life”:
“It’s a good face. I like it.”:
siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_393495
Credit: Smithsonian Institution Archives website
Continue to Rest In Peace Good Sir:
www.findagrave.com/memorial/87516589/allyn-b-hazard
Credit: “Find a Grave” website