Convair Moon Lander

In the late 1950s, Convair was eager to get into the manned spaceflight business. Aided by visionary aerospace engineer Krafft Ehricke, it proposed many orbital and lunar-mission spacecraft designs, most of them distinguished by a functional modular architecture.

The Convair Moon Lander was classic Ehricke: six external fuel tanks strapped to a central three-engine booster atop which sat a cylindrical lab/habitat module and wedge-shaped atmospheric return vehicle. All of this would be carried into space atop one of Convair's own Atlas ICBMs (certainly a major feat considering the vehicle's weight) and then sent to the moon by a separate booster/adapter.

Ultimately, the lunar module that landed America's astronauts on the moon a decade later was much smaller and simpler that what Convair proposed -- and was manufactured by Grumman Aircraft.

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