Category: Artist

Exploratory Vehicle

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A Boeing design for a manned orbital or interplanetary reconnaissance vehicle. The vehicle would be built in orbit around the earth around the Earth, inside a plastic bubble having controlled atmosphere and pressure, permitting technicians to work without space suits. Propelled by a nuclear-powered plasma jet, it could travel to planets within our solar-system , carrying shuttle vehicles to make the actual observations of planet surfaces. Nylon nets, rather than flooring, would divide the vehicle into seven levels.

Eagle Book of Rockets and Space
by John W.R. Taylor and Maurice Allward
Longacre Press, 1961

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X-20 by George Mathis

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330-PSA-279-62 (USAF 167026): Artwork by George Mathis of how the Air Force Titan III Standard Launch Vehicle may look boosting the United States Air Force X-20 (Dyna-Soar) into orbit, August 1962.

Image credit: Boeing
Image source: National Museum of U.S. Navy

Outpost III

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Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

Bonestell Moonscape

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Image credit: NASA
Images: Mike Acs, Dan Beaumont Space Museum

Skylab

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Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974

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Apollo 8 Coming Home

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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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Skylab (McCall)

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Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974

Image credit: NASA
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Early Lander Concept

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Image credit: NASA
Images: Mike Acs, Drew Granston

S69-18546

S69-18546

S69-18546 (February 1969) — North American Rockwell artist’s concept illustrating the docking of the Lunar Module ascent stage with the Command and Service Modules during the Apollo 9 mission. The two figures in the Lunar Module represent astronauts James A. McDivitt, Apollo 9 commander; and Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot. The figure in the Command Module represents astronaut David R. Scott, command module pilot. The Apollo 9 mission will evaluate spacecraft lunar module systems performance during manned Earth-orbital flight.

Image credit: NASA JSC
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