The brochure noted that the leading Voyager main engine candidate was a modified ApolloLunarModule descent engine.
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At the time, the ApolloLunarmodules weren't sure about the softness of the soil on the moon.
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ApolloLunarModule (LM) prime contractor Grumman suggested that LMs without legs or ascent engines serve as scientific instrument carriers and mini-laboratories.
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In the images above, a pair of astronauts release the tightly folded LRV from a compartment built into the side of the ApolloLunarModule.
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During the early years of NASA, the idea was tossed around for use on the Apollocapsules.
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One for food and one that served as a workbench for a model of the Apollocapsule that I built.
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It fires its rockets and accelerates away from the moon (into orbit to rendezvous with the Apollocapsule).
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Resembling a supersized Apollocapsule, Orion will carry a human crew of four on long duration missions into orbit and beyond.
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Avcoat Special feature: Honeycombs Avcoat protected the Apollocapsule in 1969 -so long ago that Textron had to reinvent the formula.
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With room for four to six astronauts, the Orion crew module is a fair amount bigger than the Apollocapsule designed back in the 1960s.