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Despite these technical challenges, earth-orbit rendezvous remained the working plan within NASA during the early 1960's. In fact, the odd shapes of the early Saturn launch vehicle payloads reflected designs of the Earth orbit rendezvous Moon landers. |
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1 Changes in Apollo spacecraft configuration. 2 Launch of SA-1 (note upper stage). 32k jpg 3 Early lunar lander concept model. 37k jpg Photo credits: NASA. |
