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Two Orion CEVs make up the mission stack for the Plymouth Rock in-situ asteroid mission. The second capsule provides extra living space and redundancy for Earth return (though later iterations of the design replaced it with a dedicated hab module built around Orion components).

Plymouth Rock was a mission concept by Lockheed Martin, using existing Constellation program systems (Orion, Ares) to carry out a low-effort crewed asteroid visit

Cool as this was, I'd be pretty nervous as an astronaut having to do a free-flying EVA over to that rock. It'd be nice if there was a set of legs that could be attached to the hab module or Orion so it could "land" (more like dock, really), like in the Orion Phobos mission study

My Orion CEV 3d model is available at CGTrader

Support my work at patreon.com/brickmack

Description

Two Orion CEVs make up the mission stack for the Plymouth Rock in-situ asteroid mission. The second capsule provides extra living space and redundancy for Earth return (though later iterations of the design replaced it with a dedicated hab module built around Orion components).

Plymouth Rock was a mission concept by Lockheed Martin, using existing Constellation program systems (Orion, Ares) to carry out a low-effort crewed asteroid visit

Cool as this was, I'd be pretty nervous as an astronaut having to do a free-flying EVA over to that rock. It'd be nice if there was a set of legs that could be attached to the hab module or Orion so it could "land" (more like dock, really), like in the Orion Phobos mission study

My Orion CEV 3d model is available at CGTrader

Support my work at patreon.com/brickmack