4-man Apollo Rescue Spacecraft (1965)

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I've just discovered that someone was looking at 'space rescue' at least four years before the film version of Marooned appeared.

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19720067283_1972067283.pdf
 

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THX for PDF, Graham1973

in 1967 NAA proposed a 6 men Apollo logistic craft
It also gave a rescue option because the Capsule stay dock on Space station
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,4268.0/highlight,apollo+logistic.html
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1970 NAA proposed a 6 to 8 men rescue Apollo capsule launch by the shuttle
then dock on space station or Space Base
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=6779
 
Also from 1965 (& possibly related to the item in the OP), RAND proposed that in the event man-rating of the Saturn V was not possible, that a 'ferry' CSM carrying a drogue docking unit be designed so that a modified EOR mission profile could be used, with a CSM/SatIb stack being launched into orbit followed by an unmanned CSM/LM/SatV stack.

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http://beyondapollo.blogspot.com/2009/06/rands-apollo-backup-plan-1965.html

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770078693_1977078693.pdf
 

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