Lockheed Moon Base

[RyanC]

No name given in the description. Found as before at NARA.

 

[blackstar]

Any idea on the date?

And found where at NARA? What facility and record group and collection? That could provide some relevant clues. For instance, did you find them in Air Force files or NASA files or Army files?

 

[blackstar]

One thing I'm curious about is how they thought they could rotate that tall cylinder off that short squat base and not have it tip over.

Now that NASA's lunar return has been scrapped, NASA is (or will) scrap the budding work on how to develop the lunar outpost. There were some really clever ideas being worked on by some really clever people. For instance, the ATHLETE rover incorporated some great ideas on how to unload vehicles and move them around the surface. It's a shame that's gone away.

 

[Stargazer]

I'll forever wonder why the millions that are spent on the taxpayer's money for such programs do not result in some sort of data storage for future programs. Why does it seem like everytime an old idea is revived, everyone has to work from scratch again instead of building on what has already been done?

 

[Skybolt]

Could be the Lunar Logistics studies done by Lockheed et al. in 1963-4 for Marshall. Those that evolved in MOLAB.

 

[Michel Van]

that Lockheed 1962 study "Extended Lunar Operations" (ELO)
ELO is a detailed lunar base development program, schedule spanning from 1962 to 1980
Lunar Probe
1962 to mid-1965. Ranger hard landers collect lunar environment data
mid-1964 and early 1976. Surveyor A soft landers explore the moon
mid-1965 and mid-1976. Surveyor B orbiters map the surface
R&D schedule
1962 to mid-1964. the start of the ELO and concept development
1966. begin Base hardware development
mid-1967. begin of tests to prove hardware reliability
Manned flights
late 1966-early 1968. Apollo B circumlunar and lunar orbital missions.
1968 and 1969. Apollo C Mission, landings with stays no longer than two days.
1969. Saturn C-5s begin delivering ELO modules to the moon
1970 and the first half of 1971. Extended lunar exploration with stays no longer than two weeks
mid-1971. a "interim lunar exploratory base" supporting stays no longer than three months
1974. a "semi-permanent lunar base" with stays no longer than six months.
1975. a permanent lunar base with "unlimited operations" becomes operational.

Source (if you find it)
"Extended Lunar Operations, Lunar Surface", LMSC A013250 (WO/WA 50-5365-0080), Technical Summary Report, 2nd Quarter 1962, Advanced Space Systems Design, Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, June 29, 1962.

"Extended Lunar Operations, Lunar Surface", LMSC A013981 (WO/WA 50-5365-0080), Technical Summary Report, 3rd Quarter 1962, Advanced Space Systems Design, Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, October 3, 1962.

"Extended Lunar Operations, Lunar Surface", LMSC A014292 (WO/WA 50-5365-0080), Technical Summary Report, 4th Quarter 1962, Advanced Space Systems Design, Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, January 18, 1963.

"Lunar Base Technical Summary Report", LMSC 657852 (WO/WA 50-5365-0080), 1st & 2nd Quarters 1963, National Space Programs Office, Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, July 30, 1963.

"A Handbook for Lunar Basing", unpublished draft report, undated (October 1963?).

Source on color picture
death homepage "Romance to Reality" by David S. F. Portree

 

[RyanC]

Any idea on the date?

And found where at NARA? What facility and record group and collection? That could provide some relevant clues. For instance, did you find them in Air Force files or NASA files or Army files?

They're in the files themselves:

"306 PS-C 64-2758 - WHEELED VEHICLE UNLOADING - LOCKHEED.jpg"

RG-306 - PS-C Files -- Number 64 (for 1964) - 2758.

Basically 306 is the US Information Aid Agency Record Group.

 

[ender]

"Romance to Reality" is not anymore online, but not David's blog

http://beyondapollo.blogspot.com/2009/01/lockheed-moon-base-1962-1963.html