Retro Moon Lander, 1960s Space Race Lunar Lander

A chunky retro moon lander with a faceted, rounded crew cabin set on an eight-sided descent stage with recessed side panels. The cabin has two small square windows, a hatch-like block, side thruster pods, a tall whip antenna and a dish antenna on an angled mast. Four braced landing legs end in broad round footpads, one of them carrying a ladder, and an engine bell sits underneath. Leg-mounted landers became the defining spacecraft of the 1960s space race, when robotic probes and then crewed mis…

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