Category: Artist

Lockheed Space Taxi

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Image credit: Lockheed
Image source: AFMC 

Cover Art

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Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965

Image credit: Martin Marietta
Image source: Numbers Station

Leynnwood Gallery

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Image credit: Northrop
Images: Numbers Station

Man Will Conquer Space Soon

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  1. Man will Conquer Space Soon.
  2. Men and materials arrive in a winged rocket and take “space taxis” to wheeled space station at right. Men wear pressurized suits. Three “space taxis’ can be seen – one leaving rocket, another reaching satellite, a third near the already-built astronomical observatory.
  3. Skin of rocket ship’s third stage (shown over Cape Town, South Africa) glows read hot on return trip. Phenomenon does not occur during ascent.

Man will Conquer Space Soon
Collier’s, March 22, 1953

Image credit: Collier’s
Image source: AIAA Houston

The Ferry Rocket

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Von Braun’s rocket ship design. Tall as a 24-story building, it will weight 7,000 tons and have a 65-foot base.

Man will Conquer Space Soon
Collier’s, March 22, 1953

Image credit: Collier’s
Image source: AIAA Houston

Who Owns the Universe?

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Mars, at its closest 35,000,000 miles from Earth, as seen from its outer moon Deimos, where man could land before going on to the planet.

Man will Conquer Space Soon
Collier’s, March 22, 1953

Image credit: Collier’s
Image source: AIAA Houston