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@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 8:33 AM

The 1950 Lunar Spaceship preparing to take off - with cutaway drawing. R. A. Smith.
‘Four legs serve as both launching ramp and landing gear. The ship lands backwards, its fall slowed by rocket braking.’
#RASmith #BIS #BritishInterplanetarySociety #LunarLander #moonship

from Arthur C. Clarke, “What Will Will We Do with the Moon?” Popular Science, April 1952 http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.it/2012_10_01_archive.htmlfrom Arthur C. Clarke, “What Will Will We Do with the Moon?” Popular Science, April 1952 http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.it/2012_10_01_archive.html
@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 8:33 AM

The 1950 Lunar Spaceship landing on the Moon
Illustrations by R. A. Smith & David A. Hardey
#RASmith #BIS #BritishInterplanetarySociety #LunarLander #moonship

Illustration by R. A. Smith Image from https://vauxhallhistory.org/the-space-art-of-ralph-smith-in-vauxhall/ Illustration by David A. Hardey. February 1952. https://discoveryenterprise.wordpress.com/category/british-interplanetary-society/.
@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:39 AM

Cut-away illustration by Fred Freeman (1907-1988) for Willy Ley’s “Inside the Moon Ship”
(*Collier’s*, October 18, 1952)
#rocketscience #WillyLey #WernherVonBraun #lunarlander #spacetravel #FredFreeman

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@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:39 AM

#OTD in 1952
Wernher von Braun with a model of his “Lunar Lander”, October 11, 1952
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The 'moon ship' was to be presented Oct. 18, in the second of the historic *Collier’s* articles, Wernher von Braun & Willy Ley, “Man on the Moon - The Journey”
#WernherVonBraun #SpaceShip #LunarLander

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