Stacked Stage Moon Lander, Retro Rocket Style

A bell-shaped lander built in two stacked stages: a rounded upper cabin with a porthole sits on a wider conical lower stage with a second porthole. Four spherical tanks bulge out around the base, a lattice antenna tower with rings rises from the top to a sharp point, and four splayed legs with round footpads support it over an engine skirt. 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…

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