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United States Naval Institute. Space atlas; valuable information on universe, solar system, moon, earth in space, tide, calendar, time, coming exploration of outer space. New York: American Map Co. 48 p. 26 cm.
General Dynamics gave us illustrations of Passenger gliders...
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Reconnaissance space ships (not space stations) never intended to land on the surface.
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And solar powered space ships. While NASA showed their version of how the future would look.
All I know is that space travel looked a lot cooler before actual physics and budgets came into play
As a HUGE FAN of this kind of art I'm always looking for inspiration for my work; here are some samples:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.martianink.com/msw.html
http://www.martianink.com/echo.html
http://www.martianink.com/moon.html
http://www.martianink.com/deepspace.html
Please note that these are not computer generated! BTW, thanks for sharing your collection.
Jaybird