NAR Space Division

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

Space Station

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Drew Granston

Mysterious Alvarez

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

Henry Lozano Jr. Gallery

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station

Space Station Launch Sequence

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers, North American Rockwell
Image source: NASM

KAE Papers

Planetary Illustrations (artists’ concepts)

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / North American Rockwell
Image source: NASM

Shuttle Docking

Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974

Image credit: Robert McCall
Image source: Numbers Station