Sep 252013
Also published in Lockheed Horizons, this design was meant for launch atop a Saturn Ib. It *may* have been part of the Manned Orbiting Research Lab studies. The Gemini logistics craft appear to be minimally modified.
Also published in Lockheed Horizons, this design was meant for launch atop a Saturn Ib. It *may* have been part of the Manned Orbiting Research Lab studies. The Gemini logistics craft appear to be minimally modified.
This is the minimum-configuration MORL (Manned Orbiting Research Laboratory) before they began adding everything and anything into it. Power was by Fuel Cells, adapted from the Gemini program or scooted in from the newer Apollo design. Docking was to have 3 ports, all Nose Dock config, with spacecraft modifications totalling +405 lbs over the baseline Gemini spacecraft (structure beef-up, dock provisions, added retro rockets, batteries, a data link for rendezvous, temp. control equip. for long-term, unoccupied Gemini storage on-orbit and removal of R&D instruments).
Source: Report A320, Gemini Spacecraft Study for MORL Ferry Missions, 13 November 1963.
Note: Weights listed in a similar report, numbered Report A172, include slightly different weights for the various Gemini docking configs. Believe this is the source material the A320 report was summarized from.