Lunar escape systems

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Lunar escape systems" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Lunar escape systems (LESS) were a series of emergency vehicles designed for never-flown long-duration Apollo missions. Because these missions were more hypothetical than the planned cancelled Apollo missions, the designs were never constructed. This concept was an outgrowth of the Lunar Flying Vehicle^[1] by Bell Aerospace (a lunar surface mobility design that was cancelled in favor of the less risky Lunar Rover).