Convair Super Nexus by wblack
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Description
America’s Lost Space Program
What the real 2001: A Space Odyssey might have looked like.
Built using blue-print references, the Convair Super Nexus LV.3. As an added touch of realism I’ve given the vehicle a Saturn-V style paint job and markings.
The Super Nexus is arguably the largest booster ever to receive serious consideration. Standing 600 feet tall Super Nexus was capable of a direct-launch delivery of 1 million pound payloads to the lunar surface – other missions included space-station construction and support operations and interplanetary mission payload launch.
First stage consisted of 20 thruster segments arranged around a truncated-plug -- forming a single massive segmented engine.
Nuclear Lunar Transfer Stage consisted of 2 6 million pound Gas-Core (Open Cycle) Nuclear Thermal Rockets.
A design variant with a chemical second stage would loft a staggering 2 million LBS to LEO.
In a typical mission scenario the vehicle would launch from the Earth’s surface, park itself in a temporary Earth orbit, boost itself to the moon, park itself in a 20-mile altitude lunar orbit, then de-orbit to an altitude of 2000 feet, where it would hover. The payload would then separate and land itself; the Lunar-Transfer stage would then boost itself back to Earth and put itself in Earth orbit.
Comments (11)
NefariousDrO
Wow, The modeling work on this is fantastic! I can't imagine how much thrust would be necessary to lift that much mass, that's a super cool rocket!
sim3344
Great job!!!!
geirla
That's a really big rocket. Really big. Great job on the modeling!
Tholian
Nice modeling. Great paint and markings.
peedy
Fantastic modeling! Great details. Corrie
RobertJ
This is nice! For people who want to learn more about these huge projects,m http://www.astronautix.com/
flavia49
wonderful
texboy
a fine-looking craft, bud.... maybe the Rooshians will build one for us....
thecytron
Interesting presentation!
neighborsgoat
Very nice work; I'd love to see a video sequence of that rocket taking off in slo-mo! Congratulations!
Bambam131
Your modeling skills are very impressive as always, the engine configurations on this rockets somewhat looks like the Soviet N1 that was supposed to take Russian cosmonauts to the moon at about the same time as Apollo. Very cool idea you got here my friend. All the best, David