Oil on panel by Robert McCall. The Apollo 8 spacecraft fires it’s engines to propel it out of lunar orbit and the return trip to Earth.
This is NASA, EP 22, 1971
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Apollo 8 Coming Home
Author: G
Skylab (McCall)
Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974
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Just to illustrate just how utterly massive the R-134B would have been, take a look at this illustration from a report written by Jack Swigert for The Society of Experimental Test Pilots:
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Image source: Mike Acs
Early Lander Concept
We Land On The Moon
NASA artwork as it appeared in We Land On The Moon by John Raymond in 1963.
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Beautiful scan of an original NASA issued lithograph.
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Image source: Mike Acs, Drew Granston, Numbers Station
Apollo 17 Experiments
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Mercury Space Capsule
Image credit: ABMA
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Pig Capsule
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Image source: NASA JSC
NAR Concept Art
Image credit: North American Rockwell
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Deep Space EVA
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Image source: Mike Acs
Nuclear-Thermionic-Ionic Propulsion
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Missiles and Rockets, August 22, 1960
Image credit: Lockheed
Images: Numbers Station, Internet Archive
Worden’s EVA
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It took me a few, but the lower version is either an earlier or later version of the same painting. The figure representing James B. Irwin is a repaint. My guess is the image on NASA’s site is later, reworked to give the figure a slightly more dramatic pose. The painting is by a North American Rockwell artist.
Image credit: NASA JSC
Images: NASA Images, Numbers Station
