Spherical Pod Moon Lander, Retro Space Age Model

A ball-shaped moon lander. The spherical crew pod carries raised porthole rings in its upper half, a band around its middle fitted with small thruster blocks, and a dish antenna on a tall mast. A conical engine nozzle hangs underneath, and splayed, braced landing legs with round footpads hold the pod high off the ground. Leg-mounted landers became the defining spacecraft of the 1960s space race, when robotic probes and then crewed missions touched down on the Moon; the first crewed landing came…

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