"Big Apollo" Logistics CSM

**SAustin16** · #1 08-10-2010, 07:52 PM

Hello to All,

I'd been researching Big Gemini for quite a while when I wondered what an enlarged North American Apollo CSM competitor for the Logistics Spacecraft of the early 1970's might have looked like. It's mission would have been to ride an S-IVB to orbit, and transport personnel and supplies to the planned military and civilian space stations. Here's my completely conjectural "Big Apollo" as modeled in Metasequoia and the details worked in MS Word.

**Maltedfalcon** · #2 08-10-2010, 08:43 PM

Very Fun!
I like "What ifs"

**dhanners** · #3 08-11-2010, 03:57 AM

Great build! Wonderful design and execution on your part.

The "Back to the Future" timing couldn't be better. Hints at Boeing's CST-100 spacecraft, which the company unveiled at Fanrborough this year. Everything old is new again:

**Paper Kosmonaut** · #4 08-11-2010, 05:04 AM

Great design! Nice out of the box thinking with crossbreeding Gemini elements with Apollo. If it was to be proposed now it might have been a good candidate for a launch on one of Spacex' Elon Musk's "BFR" designs he recently suggested.

**Wyvern** · #5 08-11-2010, 07:52 AM

Very nice work!

Wyvern

**WeeVikes** · #6 08-11-2010, 10:56 AM

I'm reading a biography on Wernher Von Braun right now, and am at the part of the story covering the early 1970's, where the budgets for sweet projects like this one were slashed. It's disappointing all those plans for vehicles like this one never came to fruition.

I'm glad you had the imagination to make this "come to life".

Mike

**SAustin16** · #7 09-11-2010, 08:01 PM

Hello All, and thank you for your inputs.

Here are Big Apollo launched on the S-IVB rendevousing with its big brother (33 foot diameter) launched on top of an S-II. Both 1/96 scale.