fut/lnr_v_bw_o_n (ca. 1964, unnumbered LM&SC photo, LSBV)
“This is the exploration vehicle for the U.S. “Man on the Moon” program, as conceived by scientists and engineers of the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company at Sunnyvale, California. Designed for a 600-mile round trip from a lunar base site, the vehicle would provide almost 200 hours at a destination site for exploratory purposes. The two-man vehicle, 12 feet in diameter, contains a combination air-lock and emergency compartment to provide protection against solar flare activity or meteoroid penetration. The vehicle would be propelled in a ballistic path by a rocket system using a storable propellant.”
I believe the artwork/print is prior to 1964.
Additionally, from Paul Vreede’s wonderful “SPACEX: GOLDEN ASTRONAUT” website, taken from David S. F. Portree’s superlative original blog:
“Lockheed's two-man Lunar Surface Ballistic Vehicle (LSBV) would "hop" over the lunar landscape using a nitrogen tetroxide/hydrazine rocket motor. The motor would fire briefly to lob the LSBV onto a suborbital path, then again to slow it to a gentle touchdown at a remote exploration site. Twin landing skids would cant out of way of the rocket blast in flight. The crew would ride inside a 12-foot-diameter spherical cabin topped by a silver thermal insulation "beanie cap" that would ward off heat from its pitch/roll thrusters and from harsh lunar sunlight. The LSBV, which would weigh 775 pounds on the moon, would need to carry 1250 pounds of propellants in its twin spherical side-mounted tanks to make a 200-mile round trip flight. Short trip time would be the LSBV's chief advantage over the LTV; a 200-mile LSBV flight would last 15 minutes, while a 200-mile LTV traverse would need 40 hours.”
At:
www.triangspacextoys.info/SpGAorig/MnBs_OrF/MnBs_OrP.html
I don’t see the two-man capability, at least not of the second occupant to be similarly seated. However, the object next to the astronaut does look like an ‘examination table’.
See also:
www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/lockheed-moon-base.10309/
Credit: SECRET PROJECTS website
Finally, I’ve come across this multiple times over the decades, loved it & had always hoped to see it at higher resolution! Ta-dah!
It's exquisite & meticulous. I think it’s by Ludwik Źiemba…or one of his protégés. Although, in color, this & all of the others from this ‘series’ look really cartoonish.
fut/lnr_v_bw_o_n (ca. 1964, unnumbered LM&SC photo, LSBV)
“This is the exploration vehicle for the U.S. “Man on the Moon” program, as conceived by scientists and engineers of the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company at Sunnyvale, California. Designed for a 600-mile round trip from a lunar base site, the vehicle would provide almost 200 hours at a destination site for exploratory purposes. The two-man vehicle, 12 feet in diameter, contains a combination air-lock and emergency compartment to provide protection against solar flare activity or meteoroid penetration. The vehicle would be propelled in a ballistic path by a rocket system using a storable propellant.”
I believe the artwork/print is prior to 1964.
Additionally, from Paul Vreede’s wonderful “SPACEX: GOLDEN ASTRONAUT” website, taken from David S. F. Portree’s superlative original blog:
“Lockheed's two-man Lunar Surface Ballistic Vehicle (LSBV) would "hop" over the lunar landscape using a nitrogen tetroxide/hydrazine rocket motor. The motor would fire briefly to lob the LSBV onto a suborbital path, then again to slow it to a gentle touchdown at a remote exploration site. Twin landing skids would cant out of way of the rocket blast in flight. The crew would ride inside a 12-foot-diameter spherical cabin topped by a silver thermal insulation "beanie cap" that would ward off heat from its pitch/roll thrusters and from harsh lunar sunlight. The LSBV, which would weigh 775 pounds on the moon, would need to carry 1250 pounds of propellants in its twin spherical side-mounted tanks to make a 200-mile round trip flight. Short trip time would be the LSBV's chief advantage over the LTV; a 200-mile LSBV flight would last 15 minutes, while a 200-mile LTV traverse would need 40 hours.”
At:
www.triangspacextoys.info/SpGAorig/MnBs_OrF/MnBs_OrP.html
I don’t see the two-man capability, at least not of the second occupant to be similarly seated. However, the object next to the astronaut does look like an ‘examination table’.
See also:
www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/lockheed-moon-base.10309/
Credit: SECRET PROJECTS website
Finally, I’ve come across this multiple times over the decades, loved it & had always hoped to see it at higher resolution! Ta-dah!
It's exquisite & meticulous. I think it’s by Ludwik Źiemba…or one of his protégés. Although, in color, this & all of the others from this ‘series’ look really cartoonish.