a08_v_bw_o_n (68-H-1186, 68-HC-753)
“Artists concept shows Apollo 8 spacecraft as it orbits the Moon. During this mission, the tree-man crew will photograph the Moon’s surface and make landmark sightings and other observations. Television signals may be transmitted live to Earth by the four-dish high gain antenna at the rear of the spacecraft. The mission calls for ten orbits of the Moon. The initial two orbits will be 60 by 170 nautical miles and the next eight will be 60 nautical miles circular. Apollo 8 is scheduled for launch from the NASA Kennedy Space Center at 7:51 a.m., December 21. The 147-hour National Aeronautics and Space Administration lunar orbit mission will end with splashdown in the Pacific Ocean south of Hawaii.”
Note that the depiction is a cutaway, revealing one of the crewmen photographing the lunar surface...with a camera that has a sight on it befitting a WW II anti-aircraft gun. I don't know, maybe such was planned/used?
I can’t even guess on the artist...yet, which is a shame, because this is a beautiful piece of work.
Featured as the box cover of Columbia Pictures’ 8mm “home movie”, of the mission, entitled “APOLLO 8 - MOON ORBIT”.
Note the similarity:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo10/hires...
Credit: Apollo 10 Flight Journal website
a08_v_bw_o_n (68-H-1186, 68-HC-753)
“Artists concept shows Apollo 8 spacecraft as it orbits the Moon. During this mission, the tree-man crew will photograph the Moon’s surface and make landmark sightings and other observations. Television signals may be transmitted live to Earth by the four-dish high gain antenna at the rear of the spacecraft. The mission calls for ten orbits of the Moon. The initial two orbits will be 60 by 170 nautical miles and the next eight will be 60 nautical miles circular. Apollo 8 is scheduled for launch from the NASA Kennedy Space Center at 7:51 a.m., December 21. The 147-hour National Aeronautics and Space Administration lunar orbit mission will end with splashdown in the Pacific Ocean south of Hawaii.”
Note that the depiction is a cutaway, revealing one of the crewmen photographing the lunar surface...with a camera that has a sight on it befitting a WW II anti-aircraft gun. I don't know, maybe such was planned/used?
I can’t even guess on the artist...yet, which is a shame, because this is a beautiful piece of work.
Featured as the box cover of Columbia Pictures’ 8mm “home movie”, of the mission, entitled “APOLLO 8 - MOON ORBIT”.
Note the similarity:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo10/hires...
Credit: Apollo 10 Flight Journal website