Gemini Lunar Lander

[Chipstone306]

Hey Guys!
i found this information on http://www.astronautix.com/craftfam/gemini.htm

Interesting ideas using gemini for a lunar mission. C'mon half of our work is already done we already have the gemini addon done all we need is the lander made!

 

[Master of Blades]

It'd be really cool to have actually, unfortunately, I can't make addons :/

 

[Andy44]

This would require a new version of Gemini; the real plan would have modified the Gemini capsule significantly. One version of this plan would have put two men on the lunar surface in a simple direct ascent flight plan with no orbital rendezvous. The guy who writes in astronautix is pretty opinionated about Apollo being an expensive and risky mistake by NASA...

 

[tl8]

This would require a new version of Gemini; the real plan would have modified the Gemini capsule significantly. One version of this plan would have put two men on the lunar surface in a simple direct ascent flight plan with no orbital rendezvous. The guy who writes in astronautix is pretty opinionated about Apollo being an expensive and risky mistake by NASA...

Notice the UFO DNA on the side of the website :dry:

 

[Andy44]

Notice the UFO DNA on the side of the website :dry:

I wasn't criticizing the website. It's actually the only site of its kind on the web that I know of, browse it for five minutes and you'll easily waste five hours. So much space history, it's as bad as going to Orbit Hangar and htting the refresh button over and over again...you just can't quit.

 

[Graham2001]

I wasn't criticizing the website. It's actually the only site of its kind on the web that I know of, browse it for five minutes and you'll easily waste five hours. So much space history, it's as bad as going to Orbit Hangar and htting the refresh button over and over again...you just can't quit.

Agreed, there's an interesting variant on the Gemini Lunar circumnavigation mission Sputnik did a while back.

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/gemstage.htm

With a bit of tweeking this could be done using Velcro Rockets.

 

[Master of Blades]

Yeah, i used to have that one, but it kept crashing for strange reasons... and if i've got it right, it didn't involve any landing?