fut/Mars_v_c_o_n (ca. 1969-71, hand-annotated A71-23)
IDK…circa 1969-71 unknown NASA(?) artist’s cutaway depiction of a Mars Base, possibly as part of the Integrated (Manned) Program Plan (IPP). While the Mars Excursion Module (MEM) in the background appears here & there online, I’ll be damned if I could find the “base” anywhere. Let alone with a vegetable garden! The closest I came was the good old PMView website:
sites.google.com/site/spaceodysseytwo/stg1969/marsbase.jpg
Obviously, the above is conclusively from 1970; however, its design looks more ‘contemporary’, i.e., subsequent to that of my posted photograph, hence my left-hand boundary of 1969. Despite the hand annotated identification…from which I’m extrapolating ‘1971’. Who knows.
The PMView image’s accompanying reference/text of…
“The smaller 6-crew space station module would also have housed Mars-bound astronauts in 1982-86.”
…seems to have it as part of a modular space station evolution/derivative, with the whole space tug thing, within the 1969 Space Task Group. Again, who knows.
Sifting through the piecemeal bits & pieces, selective compilations, etc., despite this:
www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/19690804_man...
which doesn’t address ‘permanent’ base establishment…has become/been exceedingly frustrating.
fut/Mars_v_c_o_n (ca. 1969-71, hand-annotated A71-23)
IDK…circa 1969-71 unknown NASA(?) artist’s cutaway depiction of a Mars Base, possibly as part of the Integrated (Manned) Program Plan (IPP). While the Mars Excursion Module (MEM) in the background appears here & there online, I’ll be damned if I could find the “base” anywhere. Let alone with a vegetable garden! The closest I came was the good old PMView website:
sites.google.com/site/spaceodysseytwo/stg1969/marsbase.jpg
Obviously, the above is conclusively from 1970; however, its design looks more ‘contemporary’, i.e., subsequent to that of my posted photograph, hence my left-hand boundary of 1969. Despite the hand annotated identification…from which I’m extrapolating ‘1971’. Who knows.
The PMView image’s accompanying reference/text of…
“The smaller 6-crew space station module would also have housed Mars-bound astronauts in 1982-86.”
…seems to have it as part of a modular space station evolution/derivative, with the whole space tug thing, within the 1969 Space Task Group. Again, who knows.
Sifting through the piecemeal bits & pieces, selective compilations, etc., despite this:
www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/19690804_man...
which doesn’t address ‘permanent’ base establishment…has become/been exceedingly frustrating.