It was with LUMAN V, planned for 1965, that a single astronaut would ride a 'Big B' rocket to make the momentous journey to the lunar surface and back.
LUMAN III would send robot craft to land a payload on the moon, and LUMAN IV would land on the moon and return to Earth. LUMAN I would send animal flights around the moon to test the hardware and systems before LUMAN II sent astronauts on a circumlunar flight.
It was only after those phases that Project LUMAN would come into play in May 1962. Air Force, Army and private contractors produced these major studies before NASA took charge (Image credit: All About Space) Then LUREC III, using retrograde rockets to land on the moon, would send back further data.
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These craft would capture TV images and gather scientific information about the moon to enable planners to select suitable landing sites. LUREC I would test tracking and communications with a spacecraft 250,000 miles (402,336 km) away, while LUREC II would test the guidance systems to ensure they could accurately land a craft at a specific place on the moon. MISSOPH III would test a shuttle that would land back on Earth like an aircraft and was planned for lunar and Earth orbital missions.Īlongside the MISSOPH missions, starting in April 1960, the USAF would have run the Lunar Reconnaissance (LUREC) program using robotic craft. MISSOPH II would send a spacecraft to a distance of 40,000 miles (64,374 kilometers), and test how it would cope with a re-entry speed of 23,864 mph (38,405 kph), the speed a craft returning from the moon would achieve. The first was robotic and animal testing of a capsule that could stay in space for two weeks - the time it would take to make a moon trip. The next phase would have been the Man In Space Sophisticated (MISSOPH) program, according to Air & Space.
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