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Frank Tinsley

These dramatic renderings by Frank Tinsley were used in a series of print advertisements by the American Bosch ARMA corporation.

  1. Atomic Pulse Rocket
  2. Breaking a Space Traffic Jam
  3. Escape In Space
  4. Mars Snooper
  5. Assembling a station in space
  6. Lunar Unicycle
  7. Nuclear Rocketship
  8. Cosmic Butterfly

An amazing 3D rendering of the Lunar Unicycle by Nick Stevens can be found: here.

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Assembly of The Moonships

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Weightless in orbit 1,075 miles above earth, workers in space assemble three moon ships. Hawaiian Islands lie below. Winged transports unload near wheel-shaped space station top left. Engineers and equipment cluster around cargo ship lower left, passenger ship center and right.

Man on the Moon
Collier’s, October 18,1952

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Image source: AIAA Houston

Inside the Moon Ship

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Man on the Moon
Collier’s, October 18,1952

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Image source: AIAA Houston

The Round-The-Moon Ship

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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
Image source: Mike Acs

Emergency!

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  1. Inbound from space, a fast moving rocket ship noses down toward the earth, its crew alert – as always – for signs of danger. Disaster wont’ occur often on space, but rocketeers will be prepared: most of the paraphernalia shown in the cutaway sections of artist Fred Freeman’s picture is emergency equipment. To see how it is used, turn to Emergency!
  2. In emergency (as when broken porthole lets cabin pressure escape, as pictured), crew and passengers press buttons on chair arms; contour seats straighten automatically, capsules clap shut, seal. Capsules are connected to cabin pressure system, also have own pressure for bail-out. To abandon ship, men push another button. Capsules, guided by rails, are ejected by powder charge, drop safely into ocean with men inside. When possible, men will remain in ship, operating controls from within capsules, until they are close enough to earth to land normally.
  3. Emergency capsule is ejected from rocket ship with crewman inside, drops into sea. Speed is slowed by metal chute, impact is cushioned by small rocket in capsule base. The picture shows radar-equipped plane, rescue vessels converging on area to pick up crew members, two being slowed by rockets, and one (foreground) still so high rocket hasn’t blasted yet. Cutaway shows man in capsule, strapped to contour chair, with rocket and frozen under feet. Metal arms on base guide capsule during ejection.

How Man will Meet Emergency in Space Travel
Collier’s, March 14, 1953

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Image source: AIAA Houston

Emergency in Space Travel

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Before space-going rocket tries out its power, it will undergo tow tests behind jet bomber. Crew will board it, try emergency procedures–including bail-out, shown above.

How Man will Meet Emergency in Space Travel
Collier’s, March 14, 1953

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Image source: AIAA Houston

Dewy Bay and Home

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  1. At end of two-week-long lunar day, convoy of tractors, each pulling two of its three trailers moves cautiously across rough terrain near plain of Sinus Roria (Dewy Bay). Glare of mountain range to north is caused by setting sun. Remainder of scene is illuminated by greenish earth light.
  2. Seen from abandoned cargo ship with “full earth” shining i sky, passenger ships take off for return trip from moon to space station’s orbit.

More about Man on the Moon
Collier’s, October 25, 1952

Image credit: Collier’s
Image source: AIAA Houston