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The Art of Apollo

Apollo Program at Astronautix

Image credit: North American Rockwell

Image source: Mike Acs

Saporito & Kramer

Image credit: Lockheed

Image source: Mike Acs

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

Man Will Conquer Space Soon! at Wikipedia

Image credit: Collier’s

Image source: Mike Acs