Oil on panel by Robert McCall. The Apollo 8 spacecraft fires it’s engines to propel it out of lunar orbit and the return trip to Earth.
This is NASA, EP 22, 1971
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Apollo 8 Coming Home
Tag: North American Rockwell
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Just to illustrate just how utterly massive the R-134B would have been, take a look at this illustration from a report written by Jack Swigert for The Society of Experimental Test Pilots:
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Image source: Mike Acs
Apollo 17 Experiments
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Deep Space EVA
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Worden’s EVA
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It took me a few, but the lower version is either an earlier or later version of the same painting. The figure representing James B. Irwin is a repaint. My guess is the image on NASA’s site is later, reworked to give the figure a slightly more dramatic pose. The painting is by a North American Rockwell artist.
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Concept by Henry Lozano Jr.
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NAR Art Department
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Shuttle Development
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NAR Station & Shuttle
NAR 1970
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Space Shuttle Illustration
Previously shared here, the same Alvarez artwork without the overpaint:
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NAR Satellite Concept
Image credit: North American Rockwell
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