"short CSM" (was: "Marooned" horrific inaccuracies...?)

At last, the image -- or at least one of them -- that I was looking for
regarding the "short CSM" discussion on the "Marooned" thread.

Would this:
http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/b/bigst80s.jpg
from the page
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/spaation.htm
....be what you're thinking of? Half-length SM, no SPS, larger RCS tankage,
as one poster put it, "...a honking big Soyuz"?

Which begs the question, "why have we not developed something similar,
which doesn't have to deal with all the fancy winged-vehicle-reentry
issues" to do our crew xfer? I guess the new SLI designs using a conical,
reminiscent-of-Apollo reentry vehicle is headed that way (except for that
Russian-style open-trusswork-with-exposed-tankage equipment module, but
I'll bet it's really light).

But, anyway...seriously, all proposed actual variants aside, I think that
one prop CSM in "Marooned" was built with a short SM anticipating the use
of extremely foreshortened forced perspective views when shooting scenes
featuring front-view CM exteriors.

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