Aerojet-General Spacelines and Rocket Review 1962 Edition "After Apollo - Exploring the Moon"

Aerojet-General Spacelines and Rocket Review 1962 Edition "After Apollo - Exploring the Moon"

I cam across this partial article a few years ago but wasn't able to date it unil recently - there's an expansion of the graphic in the site I found (which appears to be a blogger site with emphasis on space in children's books "Dreams of Space"). The article (referencing the link at left) also features additional artist renderings including the two used in the Boys Life article.

Transcript:

After Apollo - Exploring the Moon

After the Apollo spacecraft lands its three- man crew on the moon and brings them back safely, what's the next step in lunar exploration?

A 12-man expedition to make a 500-mile research trip across the surface of the moon is proposed by Allyn B. Hazard, an engineer at Aerojet's subsidiary, Space-General Corporation.

It could be done in this decade, he says.

The spacemen would travel to the moon in four rockets-three round-trip passenger vehicles, the other a one-way cargo ship with 30,000 pounds of supplies to support the men and their scientific studies.

Each of the 12 astronauts would be a highly trained scientist or technologist in some particular field; some would be experts in several areas. On the moon, only four of them would make the trans-lunar journey, while the others remained at the rockets' landing site to conduct research.

The four explorers would wear special tub-like spacesuits in which they would have to live and work, eat and sleep, for the entire trip. They couldn't get out of the suits because of the airlessness and super-cold of the moon.

That's the reason for the suit's peculiar shape the wearer can slip his arms out of the sleeves to eat, adjust controls, make notes, or even to scratch his nose.

Umbilical connections would link each suit to a tractor-like "moon mobile" carrying the oxy- gen and life support system for two men. These would carry their passengers across the lunar landscape at five miles an hour. A 500 mile journey (for instance, from Crater Gruithuisen to Crater Aristarchus and back) would take 10 earth days. It would be made during the 330-hour lunar night, to avoid exposing the men to the sun's radiation.

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