I’m pretty certain these two images are by the same hand, but which one? They’re both heavily referenced and painted in what I would describe as North American Rockwell’s house style, but the palette and brushwork bring me back to a beautiful painting Don Bester did of the Saturn Shuttle. I could be wrong, but that’s the box I’m checking for now.
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Mike Acs
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives
Image credit: NASA
Image source: SDASM Archives
Exploring Tomorrow in Space
Thomas Becker
Sterling, 1972
Image credit: Grumman
Image source: Numbers Station
Image credit: Douglas
Image source: SDASM Archives
Image credit: NASA Johnson
Image source: NASA Images
Image credit: NASA Johnson
Image source: NASA Images
The huge Titan III C vehicle, towering over 150 feet into the air, moves into place on the launch pad. Missile is carried on same railroad car on which its parts were assembled.
Once the solid rockets have lifted Titan III C and it’s payload off the ground, their role is finished. As this sketch shows, when the solids burn out, they separate from the core section. Just before solid burnout, the first-stage liquid propellant engines are ignited to push the spacecraft farther towards space.
Course of the Titan III and it’s payload is monitored from a launch center such as this.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: USAF
Image source: National Archives
Artist’s concept of the Titan standard launch vehicle 34-D entering the space.
An artist’s concept of the new modular three-section fairing for the Air Force’s Titan III-C space launch vehicle.
Image credit: USAF
Image source: National Archives
Space World
December 1964, VOL. A-14
Image credit: Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station
