I’m pretty sure the top piece is by North American master illustrator M. Alvarez because he/she signed it. I think the bottom is by the same hand. What are we looking at? It’s a space station, but you knew that. You now know as much as I do. Parked here only because it shares the same page in Flying the Space Shuttles as the 1982 concept by Ted Brown I shared earlier.
Flying the Space Shuttles
Don Dwiggins
Dodd, Mead & Co., 1985
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Numbers Station
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers, North American Rockwell
Image source: NASM
Planetary Illustrations (artists’ concepts)
Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / North American Rockwell
Image source: NASM
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Numbers Station
Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974
Image credit: Robert McCall
Image source: Numbers Station
Image credit: NASA
Image source: NASA Johnson
Image credit: NASA JSC
Image source: NASA Images
S71-39481 (July 1971) — An artist’s concept showing TRW’s small lunar subsatellite being ejected into lunar orbit from the SIM bay of the Apollo 15 Service Module. The 80-pound satellite will remain in orbit a year or more, carrying scientific experiments to study space in the vicinity of the moon. The satellite carries three experiments: S-Band Transponder; Particle Shadows/Boundary Layer Experiment; and Subsatellite Magnetometer Experiment. The subsatellite is housed in a container resembling a rural mailbox, and when deployed is spring-ejected out-of-plane at 4 fps with a spin rate of 140 rpm. After the satellite booms are deployed, the spin rate is stabilized at about 12 rpm. The subsatellite is 31 inches long and has a 14 inch hexagonal diameter. The exact weight is 78.5 pounds. The folded booms deploy to a length of five feet. Subsatellite electrical power is supplied by a solar cell array outputting 25 watts for dayside operation and a rechargeable silver-cadmium battery for nightside passes.
Image credit: NASA JSC
Image source: NASA Images
