With the clear goal of a crewed landing replacing the more nebulous goals of space stations and circumlunar flights, NASA decided that, in order to make progress quickly, it would discard the feasibility study designs of Convair, GE, and Martin, and proceed with Faget's command and service module design. The mission module was determined to be useful only as an extra room, and therefore unnecessary. They used Faget's design as the specification for another competition for spacecraft procurement bids in October 1961. On November 28, 1961, it was announced that North American Aviation had won the contract, although its bid was not rated as good as the Martin proposal. Webb, Dryden and Robert Seamans chose it in preference due to North American's longer association with NASA and its predecessor.
with the clear goal of a crewed landing replacing the more nebulous goals of space stations and circumlunar flights nasa decided that in order to make progress quickly it would discard the feasibility study designs of convair ge and martin and proceed with faget's command and service module design the mission module was determined to be useful only as an extra room and therefore unnecessary they used faget's design as the specification for another competition for spacecraft procurement bids in october 1961 on november 28 1961 it was announced that north american aviation had won the contract although its bid was not rated as good as the martin proposal webb dryden and robert seamans chose it in preference due to north american's longer association with nasa and its predecessor