Off loading cargo from landing stage

[Jestersage]

So reading up on LESA (lunar exploration system for Apollo) on Astronautix shows this tidbit:

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A comparison of the merits of various modes of building up the base on the lunar surface indicated that the least costly base to deploy would involve leaving the modules on their lunar landing vehicles, and having integrated meteoroid shielding on the modules rather than towing them off the landing vehicles and burying them under lunar soil... Finally NASA concluded that it would still be preferable to remove the elements from the landing stages and cluster them closer together so that the various shelters would be accessible to one another in a shirtsleeve environment.

So the question is, being 1968, How did NASA envision removing the payload from the standard "bottom-mounted" descent stage? AFAIK, at that time, there was no cranes, ATHLETE system, or even a Straddle-type lander (aka Lunox) planned.

Edited July 23, 2019 by Jestersage

[kerbiloid]

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/documents/LMSC-665606.pdf

From page 8. They used Breaking Ground.

Also a little bit here, but mostly about the flights sequence.
https://www.wired.com/2013/01/lunar-campsite-1991-2/

Edited July 24, 2019 by kerbiloid

[Jestersage]

Thanks. I just found it too myself. Need to serarch it through the images...