Here are some more images of Moebius Models (from Aurora molds) 1/55 scale Moonbus from 2001 a space odyssey.
From Wikipedia"
The Moonbus is a fictional spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The vehicle is a small, low altitude rocket craft meant to be used for
quick transportation of passengers and cargo above the surface of the
Moon.
A moonbus is a hypothetical small, light-duty VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) spacecraft designed primarily for short-range low-altitude point-to-point ferrying of people and supplies on a moon.
A moonbus "flies" over terrain by regulating downward thrusters to
counter the moon's gravity while using horizontal thrusters or angling
downward thrust to move over the moon's surface. While plausible, this
seems to be more trouble than it would be worth in actual practice.
Given the moon's low gravity, it would be far easier to simply plot
sub-orbital trajectories which would be far safer and require less
supervision from pilots. Currently no practical moonbuses exist for lack
of applicability. The first specific depiction of a moonbus appeared in
the science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968).
the Moon Bus is the most strange vehicule of the movie. This mode of displacement at the surface would be effectively very difficult to manage....
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