Jumping in to say that this is old hat. Gemini and Apollo flights that performed spacewalks and moonwalks, did so with with no airlock. The entire spacecraft was depressurized, and the entire crew put on suits designed for full vacuum. We didn’t really get an airlock until Skylab.

Even with a pressurized rover, they would likely have a walk-back based range. In other words, you can only go as far as you can walk back to base without running out of consumables in a space suit. The Apollo LRV was capable of going a good deal farther away from the lander than they traveled because of this walk…

It should have had a tether. My guess is that they had the tether undone to move it to a new location , and then fumbled it.

For people they have SAFER:

Makes me think of this:

That’s the intention based on what I’ve read.

Because some digital artist chose to go that direction. Which, if I’m honest, I prefer to sterile 3d model renderings.

I was very confused as to when the Irish Republican Army became a green-tech investment firm...

Yes there is.

That’s a new one. Care to cite your source for that, I’d be interested in reading it.

Alan Shepard went to almost 117 miles altitude and Grissom went over 118. Well past the Karman line, so I think they count just fine.

Eh, it’s often less like MREs and more like all the vacuum dehydrated camping foods. Though there are some that are like MREs and just regular off the grocery store shelf stuff.

This render gives me..... feelings.

Museum guy here: I think this statement is an excellent guideline to illustrate the difference between preservation and resto-modding. Many times in my field people have brought me a widget they wanted to donate, but they’ve done modifications and “repairs” that destroy the historic value of an item.

True. The NRL’s lack of diligence surprises me, especially with such a Frankenstein’s monster of a vehicle.

Fair enough. I do have a bit of bias toward human space flight launch vehicles, rather than satellite launch vehicles. Hazard of the job, I suppose.

Maybe I am misreading your post, so if I am I apologize in advance BUT: NASA didn’t exist even on paper until 1958. Once it started coming together as a real organization, it was created from bits of the Army (ABMA in Huntsville/Redstone Arsenal), Air Force (Canaveral Air Station) and The National Advisory Committee…

Also, Saturn I’s came in two variants: Block I with a non powered upperstage, and Block II’s, with the aforementioned 6 RL-10's on the second stage. The first stages also had differences in regards to the find, Block I had none and Block II had weirdly stubby, different length fins, compared to the radially…

What if the receptors/sensors in the feet aren’t necessarily for pain, but to take readings of the environment so as to avoid slipping, unexpected static buildup/discharge, corrosive chemicals, etc. Maybe the “branding” is a way of burning off cruft or corrosion that has accumulated on these sensors and, in the…

This tastes like the “Devil’s Earwax” plus peanut butter.