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"Artist drawing by North American Aviation, Inc., -- The white room level of gantry 39 shows the astronauts preparing for insertion into Apoolo spacecraft."

 

Yep, "Apoolo". Ugh, even back then.

 

Beautiful conceptual Apollo Program artwork by North American Aviation (NAA) illustrator Gary Meyer of crew insertion.

 

Mr. Meyer possibly was the illustrator for this 1963 series/family of Apollo concept illustrations. Hard to confirm, as the other NAA/Apollo illustrations have no signature visible, being either cropped out or possibly never signed(?)

 

The above confirmed by Mr. Meyer himself, in a direct quote from his website, listing his work experience:

 

"Extensive paintings of Apollo moon missions including a film called “The Apollo Mission” made before the hardware existed."

 

And, incredibly, thanks to the Dan Beaumont Space Museum, the film is available here:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMwv3PtdWcU&t=124s

 

I also HIGHLY recommend checking out his amazing collection of images on Flickr.

 

Mr. Meyer's credentials, achievements and honors are amazing:

 

garymeyerillustration.net/BIOGRAPHY.html

 

Wow:

 

garymeyerillustration.net/ILLUSTRATIONS/Pages/early_work....

 

Specifically in this instance, although with slight variations:

 

garymeyerillustration.net/ILLUSTRATIONS/Pages/early_work....

 

Who knew?

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