Jupiter’s Surface

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Paul Hudson

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Crossing The Asteroid Belt

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Leaving The Solar System

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Pioneer 10

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Pioneer Venus

I have to admit, the uncropped version of this image by Don Davis made me smile. That’s acetate sheet, and you can see the punch holes to line up the levels on an Acme Pegbar. That takes me back.

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Pioneer 10 Passing Jupiter

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MOSC

Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
Image source: Internet Archive

Vehicle Comparison

Image credit: General Dynamics / Astronautics
Image source: SDASM Archives

Martian Explorer

A Boeing design study for a Mars exploration probe, 40 ft. in diameter and weighing 600 lb. Assembled and launched at a space-station, the unmanned probe would draw its power from the Sun. Propelled by an ion rocket, it would take three years to orbit Mars and return.

Eagle Book of Rockets and Space
Longacre Press, 1961

Right:

MARS VEHICLE. Drawing, based on Boeing study, of space vehicle designed for launching from orbiting platform for reconnaissance flight to Mars and return. Lunar, orbital and interplanetary system studies, and expanding programs such as the advanced Minuteman solid-propellant ICBM, are typical of challenging assignments Boeing offers electronic-electrical engineers.

Missiles and Rockets
December 7, 1959

Image credit: Boeing Aircraft Company
Image source(s): Numbers Station, Internet Archive