Element115Art

Thank you :)

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Early Space Shuttle plans included a crewed, reusable booster that would fly back to Earth after launching the Orbiter; rendered here before beginning its descent.

False color image of the Afar Depression

False color image of Sudanese agriculture

False color image of Cambodia

False color image of an African desert

Landsat images from "Mission to Earth" (1976) (3/3)

False color image of Osaka.

False color image of the Middle East

False color image of Mt. Kilimanjaro

False color image of the Ganges

Landsat images from "Mission to Earth" (1976) (2/3)

A desert image in blue.

A false color image of a desert.

A false color image of the Nile.

A false color image of an erupting volcano

Landsat images from "Mission to Earth" (1976) (1/3)

Risky Business, for the "Love on a Real Train" scene.

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A spindly spacecraft with four probes generating an aurora.

A spindly spacecraft flying in front of Mercury.

A spindly spacecraft over Mercury. Venus and Earth are in the background.

A spindly spacecraft with a big forward torus over Earth.

The International Mercury Explorer: my design for a crewed Mercury mission in the 2100s, based on the astrology symbol for the planet. The wheel spins to provide artificial gravity, the probes on the front generate a magnetic field for radiation protection.

I really like your rendition of the early TNG bridge concept.

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An early space shuttle, showing a more pointed design, docked with a modular space station consisting of 12 nearly identical white modules.

North American Rockwell's early Space Shuttle design docked with McDonnell Douglas's Growth Space Station concept.

A modular space station in another timeline.

Something to read on a hot summer day. cornerbarmagazine.com Volume 10 Issue 4

One I don't see recommended very often is His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem. It's a very realistic First Contact scenario.

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An early space shuttle concept showing an orbiter being launched on another space shuttle-style spacecraft.

The Space Shuttle in an alternate timeline. Early concepts for the Shuttle proposed using a crewed, reusable fly-back booster to launch the Orbiter into space. After launch, the booster would fly back to Earth for refurbishment.

I was just looking at pictures of the LM cabin and it doesn't look like the text was included in the final design. This page has a cleaner picture of the text though www.nasa.gov/history/alsj...

You're good! It's right in the middle of all the environmental readouts.

Apollo LM antenna beams

Neat! When they are using the landing radar to drive the display the angle of the beams drives the calculation of the velocity. So when they were in P63, PGNS was driving that display, and then when they went to P64 it switched over to the radar?

Ok. So FDAI ball is the orientation, the gauges on the side of the ball are the rates, and this is the velocity. What is the velocity relative to? The lunar surface?

Apollo 11 LM Interior.

An instrument that has cross hairs

Question for whoever: at this point I more or less understand what the rest of the instruments in the LM did, but I've always been confused by this cross hairs thing. What is it? And what is it showing?

YouTube video by Apollo 11 - Apollo Flight Journal Apollo 11: The Complete Descent

This an excellent PDI to touch down video provided by the Apollo Flight Journal.

Unfortunately Eric Jones, who did the Apollo Surface Journal which lead to the Flight Journal, recently passed away. RIP.

youtu.be/xc1SzgGhMKc?...

A black cat with yellow eyes just vibing

A cute little one-eyed black cat.

Cat pics: Apollo and Artemis

Shiny skin of the Apollo CSM

Here's a picture I took of CSM-119's skin.

Thank you :)

If you see the one at KSC that still has its shiny coating it's cool because there's this dimpled pattern on it that doesn't really show up in photos. Replicating that for these materials helped me get the way the light scatters correct.

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A Gemini capsule but with reflective metal.

An Apollo capsule but with black and white metal.

Palette swap: Gemini <-> Apollo

Didn't realize until now that both of Michael Collins's spaceflights happened during the same stretch of days in July, but three years apart.

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