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Image source: Mike Acs
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Źiemba and Collopy
Don Davis
Viking by Russ Arasmith
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Image source: Mike Acs
Viking
The Round-The-Moon Ship
The first trip to our moon will be without landing, in a ship designed to travel in space only, taking off near the Space Station and returning to it. Here the round-the-moon ship is some 240,000 miles from earth, 50 miles above the lunar surface. The large crater is Aristillus (diameter 35 miles); the other crater is Autolycus; the distant mountains are the lunar Apennines.
Man will Conquer Space Soon
Collier’s, March 22, 1953
Image credit: Collier’s
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Martin Apollo
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L. Apollo is pictured here by an artist of The Martin Co., one of three leading Space Age manufacturers awarded study contracts on project by NASA. Apollo was a god of Ancient Greece, son of Clymene and Titan. This is nicely appropriate, since Martin produces the mighty Titan intercontinental ballistic missile.
R. The Apollo lunar spacecraft planned to carry 3 crewmen on round trip between earth and the moon is shown above here enroute among the stars. Protruding fan-shapes are solar arrays to gather energy from sun for use aboard. Apollo was said to have been the triumphant participant in Olympic games. Homer called him the “god of prophecy.”
America’s Mightiest Missile
by Larry Eisinger
Arco Publishing, 1961
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Image source(s): Mike Acs, Numbers Station
Short Final
Stunning representation of a NAR Phase A orbiter about to land by Henry Lozano Jr., from the collection of everyone’s favorite space archivist.
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Mike Acs
