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[[Image:Moonbus1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A moonbus skimming ober the lunar surface]]
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[[Image:Moonbus1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A moonbus skimming over the lunar surface]]
 
[[Image:Moonbus2.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A virtual 3D cockpit of the Moonbus]]
 
[[Image:Moonbus2.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A virtual 3D cockpit of the Moonbus]]
 
[[Image:Moonbus.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A "real" moonbus from the movie taken for comparison]]
 
[[Image:Moonbus.jpg|thumb|200px|right|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.
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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 passenger transport between two points on the Moon. It has tracks for surface moving, and hover thrusters that 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.
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It serves as a passenger transport between two points on the Moon. It has tracks for surface moving, and hover thrusters that make it able to skim over the lunar surface in a manner similar to a helicopter, or make a suborbital ballistic hop.  It has enough power even to reach lunar orbit and return from it safely.
  
 
* [http://www.worldof2001.com World of 2001 homepage]
 
* [http://www.worldof2001.com World of 2001 homepage]
  
 
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Revision as of 16:08, 6 December 2007

A moonbus skimming over the lunar surface
A virtual 3D cockpit of the Moonbus
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 passenger transport between two points on the Moon. It has tracks for surface moving, and hover thrusters that make it able to skim over the lunar surface in a manner similar to a 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