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Preferred LOR. No C-5s are scheduled to fly before 1965, but assembly and launch facilities must be started well ahead. Much of Holmes's attention goes into such planning, but not long ago he had to make a more crucial decision: he had to select the "mode" in which the first men will fly to the moon...
...fast-changing vernacular of the space age LOR (Lunar Orbital Rendezvous) has suddenly become one of the big words in U.S. space doctrine. Last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that the first U.S. astronauts will attempt a LOR trip, i.e., land on the lunar surface by piloting a small "bug'' down from a mother ship parked on an orbit around the moon (TIME, June 22). After a spot of exploring, they will take off again in the bug and rejoin the mother ship for the return trip to earth. NASA now thinks that this bizarre...
Branch Line. The LOR system will use different tactics. When the spaceship approaches the moon, it will burn a small amount of fuel in its retrorockets and nudge itself into an orbit about 100 miles above the lunar surface. Then, instead of descending, it will detach a small "bug" containing two of its three-man crew. The bug will have rocket engines, a communication system and a modest supply of fuel as well as "biological support" to keep the crew alive. After it separates from the orbiting spaceship, a brief burst from its engines will put it into an elliptical...
...great advantage of LOR comes from weight-and fuel-saving at the moon end of the trip. A three-man spaceship capable of landing on the moon with enough fuel left to take off again and propel itself back to the earth, will have to weigh somewhere in the vicinity of 100,000 Ibs. The landing bug will be much smaller, probably weighing only 25,000 Ibs.. because it will not carry all the fuel, supplies and equipment for the full trip back to earth. Less fuel will be needed to land it on the moon and take...
...LOR enthusiasts estimate that a single advanced Saturn booster will be powerful enough to make the voyage direct, skipping the costly and difficult rendezvous in earth orbit...