Moonbus(2001)

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A moonbus skimming ober the lunar surface
A "real" moonbus from the movie taken for comparison

The Moonbus is a craft from the World of 2001.It is one of a few crafts being really depicted in the film.

It serves as a pasenger transport between two points on the Moon. It has tracks for surface moving, and hover thrusters tha make it able to skim over lunar surface in a manner similar to helicopter, or make a suborbital ballistic hop.It has enough power even to reach lunar orbit and return from it safely.


The World of 2001

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Spacecraft: Aquarius | Aquarius Id | Aries | Bondarenko | Centaur-O | Draco | Gagarin | Herculis | Komarov | Komarov-bis | Merkur | Moonbus | Orion | Patsayev | Polaris 1-XE | Rocketbus | Skorpion | Taurus | Titov V | Titov G

Space stations: Cytherean Station One | Space Station III | Space Station IV | Space Station V

Surface bases: Aberporth | Baikonur | Brest | Canberra | Cape Canaveral | Clavius Base | Cuxhaven | Hainan | Kadena AB | Korolevgrad | Lunar Observatory | Moscow | Phobos Base | Port Lowell | Prime Base | Serenitatis Base | Tchalinko | Tranquility Museum | Tycho | Washington