Category: Artist

Man-Carrying Satellite

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Found an interesting nugget here.

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / Convair
Image source: NASM

NASA Earth Orbital Space Station

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Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station

Saturn: The Ringed Beauty

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Saturn seen from its satellite Midas

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Saturn with its rings seen edge on

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Spaceship explores the rings of Saturn

Conquering the Sun’s Empire
Frederick I. Ordway, III
and Ronald C. Wakeford

Illustrations by Harry H-K Lange

E.P Dutton & Co., 1963

Image source: Numbers Station

Uranus: Planet on Its Side

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Explorers in Miranda viewing the banded atmosphere of Uranus

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Uranus and its moons

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Spaceship approaching Uranus; the squat, rugged landing craft will be detached from the manned spaceship as it approaches the planet.

Conquering the Sun’s Empire
Frederick I. Ordway, III
and Ronald C. Wakeford

Illustrations by Harry H-K Lange

E.P Dutton & Co., 1963

Image source: Numbers Station

Neptune: Greenish Dot in Space

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The planet Neptune

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Spaceship on Triton

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Resupply ship on faraway Nereid preparing for take-off to Pluto

Conquering the Sun’s Empire
Frederick I. Ordway, III
and Ronald C. Wakeford

Illustrations by Harry H-K Lange

E.P Dutton & Co., 1963

Image source: Numbers Station

Pluto: The Lonely Outpost

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Pluto shadowed against Milky Way galaxy

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Ion-propelled spaceship entering into orbit around Pluto

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Radio telescope on Pluto studying distant stars

Conquering the Sun’s Empire
Frederick I. Ordway, III
and Ronald C. Wakeford

Illustrations by Harry H-K Lange

E.P Dutton & Co., 1963

Image source: Numbers Station

Interstellar Depths

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Interstellar spaceship arriving at an alien Solar System trillions of miles away

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6,250 times as great as the distance from Earth to Pluto. To make such astronomical differences comprehensible we can say that the difference between these two distances is like the difference between the circumference of Earth (25,000 miles) and 4 miles.

Conquering the Sun’s Empire
Frederick I. Ordway, III
and Ronald C. Wakeford

Illustrations by Harry H-K Lange

E.P Dutton & Co., 1963

Image source: Numbers Station