Tag: shuttle

Selena Storyboard

How re-usable ROMBUS-type launch vehicles can be applied to construction of a temporary lunar base (Project Selena).

  1. Vehicle en route for the Moon is refuelled in Earth Orbit;
  2. Soft-lands on the Moon with lunar base components;
  3. Pressurized moon-tractor hauls hydrogen tanks adapted for human habitation to assembly site;
  4. The lunar base is ready for occupation.

Frontiers of Space is peppered with artwork from Douglas, including paintings by Don Charles and James Finnell. In the book, this section was illustrated with (pretty poor) knock-offs. Why? Who knows? These were the masters.

Image credit: Douglas
Image source: SDASM Archives

Deimos Storyboard

Mission to Mars (Project Deimos)

  1. Hydrogen tanks jettison as ROMBUS spaceship accelerates from Earth-orbit;
  2. Two hydrogen tanks jettison after retro-thrust into Mars orbit. Mars Landing Module separates from ROMBUS parent above the cratered deserts;
  3. After soft-landing, astronauts begin exploration setting out research equipment and taking meteorological soundings;
  4. Ascent stage of Mars Landing Module returns astronauts to ROMBUS parent in Martian orbit for return to Earth.

Frontiers of Space
Philip Bono & Kenneth Gatland
Macmillan, 1969

Image credit: Douglas
Image source: SDASM Archives

NAR Artist Concept

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Image credit: North American Rockwell
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518 Flyback Booster

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Image credit: Grumman
File source: NASA NTRS

619 by Craig Kavafes

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Design 532

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Image credit: Grumman
File source: NASA NTRS

Design 619

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Image credit: Grumman
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Design 518

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Image credit: Grumman
File source: NASA NTRS

NAR Art Department

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Image credit: North American Rockwell
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Shuttle Development

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Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station