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Gemini Lunar SRS
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Cutaway model of the Gemini Lunar Surface Rescue Spacecraft, with landing gear in stowed position. This version of Gemini would allow a direct lunar landing mission on a single Saturn V flight. It was proposed as an Apollo rescue vehicle. A single Gemini LSSS would be landed near the planned lunar landing site before an Apollo mission. In the event of a failure of the Apollo lunar module, the Gemini LSSS would return the two Apollo astronauts on the surface directly to earth.
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gemland2.jpg
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Credit:
McDonnell Douglas
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Gemini Lunar SRS
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Gemini Lunar SRS
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Cutaway model of the Gemini Lunar Surface Rescue Spacecraft, in the lunar surface configuration, with the landing gear in extended position. The ascent stage would boost the two astronauts in their Gemini capsule into a transearth trajectory for an ocean splashdown and recovery.
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gemlandr.jpg
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Credit:
McDonnell Douglas
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Gemini Lunar SRS
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Gemini Lunar SRS
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Exploded view of the Gemini Lunar Surface Rescue Spacecraft. From top to bottom: the Gemini re-entry module; the lunar ascent stage; the lunar descent stage; the lunar orbit insertion stage.
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gemlanex.jpg
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Credit:
McDonnell Douglas
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Gemini Lunar SRS
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Gemini Lunar SRS
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Gemini Lunar Surface Rescue Spacecraft. This spacecraft would be piloted by two crew to a landing near a stranded Apollo lunar module. The extended Gemini re-entry capsule had a passenger compartment for the two rescued astronauts. The LSRS used three Lunar Module descent stages for lunar orbit insertion, lunar landing, and lunar ascent.
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gemlulsr.jpg
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Credit:
McDonnell Douglas
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Gemini Lunar SRS
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Gemini Lunar SRS
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Alternate configuration for a Gemini Lunar Surface Rescue Vehicle. In place of 3 LM descent stages , this version uses 2 Apollo Service Modules and a repackaged LM descent stage. The first SM completes the translunar injection begun by the S-IVB stage. The second SM brakes into lunar orbit and then acts as a 'lunar crasher' stage, burning out just above the lunar surface. The third stage hovers to a landing near a stranded lunar module, and later boosts the Gemini capsule into transearth trajectory.
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gemlunal.jpg
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Credit:
McDonnell Douglas
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Gemini Lunar SRS
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Gemini ULRV Mission
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Mission Summary for Gemini Universal Lunar Rescue Vehicle.
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Credit:
© Mark Wade
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Gemini ULRV Mission
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Lunar Gemini
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Lunar Gemini on the moon - scene from the film 'Countdown'.
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gemland1.jpg
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Lunar Gemini
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Lunar Gemini
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The hard part - getting out of a Gemini hatch and getting onto a rope ladder to climb down to the lunar surface - a realistic scene from the film 'Countdown'.
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gemmond2.jpg
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Lunar Gemini
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Lunar Gemini
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In the Gemini cockpit, astronaut James Caan manoeuvres to the first landing on the moon - scene from the film 'Countdown'.
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gemlanv2.jpg
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Lunar Gemini
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Lunar Gemini
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The first man on the moon sets up from his lunar Gemini on the moon - scene from the film 'Countdown'.
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gemland3.jpg
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Lunar Gemini
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Lunar Gemini Panel
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Panel of the Lunar Gemini as portrayed in the film 'Countdown'
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gemcont.jpg
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Lunar Gemini Panel
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Lunar Gemini
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The lunar surface as viewed through the Gemini cockpit windows - scene from the film 'Countdown'.
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gemlunvu.jpg
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Lunar Gemini
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