Image credit: Convair
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Intelsat IV on Centaur
The Space Shuttle
Leasecraft
PEP
Space Platform
SAMSP
Construction In Space
Jack Leynnwood
Created for Nortronics (Northrop), this Jack Leynnwood painting of a rocket circling the moon graced the cover of Missiles and Rockets in February, 1959.
Missiles and Rockets, Feb 9, 1959
Image credit: Northrop
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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.
- Atomic Pulse Rocket
- Breaking a Space Traffic Jam
- Escape In Space
- Mars Snooper
- Assembling a station in space
- Lunar Unicycle
- Nuclear Rocketship
- Cosmic Butterfly
An amazing 3D rendering of the Lunar Unicycle by Nick Stevens can be found: here.
Image credit: ARMA
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Working In Space
Image credit: Convair
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S-83-28321
S83-28321 (14 March 1983) — In this artist’s concept of future lunar operations, a lunar ferry is about to burn out of lunar orbit for the trip back to facilities in low Earth orbit. The ferry vehicle carries tank modules filled with liquid oxygen, which has been produced from mining operations on the surface of the Moon. One possibility for such operations would be to have manned facilities in low lunar orbit, such as illustrated here. At the upper right side of the photo is a small orbiting manned station. At the lower right side of the photo is a liquid oxygen propellant dump, to which a lunar landing vehicle carrying liquid oxygen is about to dock. The lunar ferry vehicle itself is representative of one type of aerobraking system. The balloon-like torus around the center of the ferry-craft would inflate to several times its illustrated size and, once the vehicle has swooped down close to the Earth’s outer atmosphere on the return journey, would use atmospheric drag to slow the craft and place itself in low Earth orbit. The liquid oxygen would then be used in operations there for fueling various vehicles, including an orbital transfer vehicle for trips to geosynchronous Earth orbit. This concept is part of a study done for the Johnson Space Center by Eagle Engineering of Houston. The artist was Pat Rawlings.
Image credit: Eagle Engineering
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