Single launch stack Lunar mission?

[Jestersage]

To everyone's recollection, aside from those in 60's (Apollo, N1-LK, LK700), are there any other single launch-stack lunar missions? (not direct ascent, just single launch stack)

Specifically, during the numerous revisions from Constellations and Side projects (eg DIRECT and Jupiter rockets), were there any launch profile that just need one launch to the moon?

[kerbiloid]

23 minutes ago, Jestersage said:

To everyone's recollection, aside from those in 60's (Apollo, N1-LK, LK700), are there any other single launch-stack lunar missions? (not direct ascent, just single launch stack)

Specifically, during the numerous revisions from Constellations and Side projects (eg DIRECT and Jupiter rockets), were there any launch profile that just need one launch to the moon?

Two variants of gemini lander?

https://www.google.com/search?q=gemini+lander&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjbspiUlZbrAhVpmYsKHQ1zAwYQ_AUoAXoECA4QAw&biw=1920&bih=979#imgrc=7kysR1tHbxR3WM

(A direct ascent Gemini and a Gemini with that lightweight lunar lander)

The astronautix has something about them, iirc.

(but yes, they're 1960s)

Edited August 12, 2020 by kerbiloid

[sevenperforce]

The Lunex landing would have used the old SLS (which stood for Space Launching System). Two core hydrolox stages of equal size, but with bigger engines on the bottom stage, and up to four Shuttle-sized SRBs, to put a direct ascent spaceplane lander on the moon. But that was 1960s as well. The UR-700 was a single-stack heavy-lift multi-core cross-fed Soviet rocket intended for a direct ascent moonshot. Also 1960s.

In 1991 under Bush Senior, there was a study which set up design for an SSME-based multi-core heavy lift rocket called the National Launch System. The largest of these could have sent over 180 tonnes to LEO and could have supported a single-stack lunar mission. This design eventually led to the development of the much smaller Delta IV.

From 1992-1993, the Comet HLLV was in the design phase for a single-stack lunar outpost mission (First Lunar Outpost or FLO). It was basically a Saturn V with stretched fuel tanks, uprated engines (with no less than six J-2X engines on the second stage), and two strap-on boosters with two F-1A engines each (not unlike the Pyrios boosters proposed for SLS). It would have sent almost 100 tonnes to TLI.

This is probably the closest to what you are thinking.

[DDE]

Glushko's LEK was a direct-ascent vehicle lofted atop a beefed-up Energiya. But even then, Glushko wanted to ferry the crew up in a Soyuz.