a_v_bw_o_n (1963 original NAA news photo, no. A-4)
“MOTHER SHIP – Artist’s drawing shows the Apollo “mother ship” as it may look in orbit around the Moon just before the three Houston astronauts return to Earth. The three men sit in the pointed “command module” or cabin. Behind them is the “service module” that contains the huge rocket that will fire them away from their Moon orbit and return them to Earth. Near Earth the cone-shaped command module will be separated from the service module, and the astronauts will fall to Earth in their three-man cabin.”
Note the large strake - even casting a shadow – on the exterior of the Command Module. To me, the crew looks to be near earth, but hey, earth/moon, whatever...close enough for government work, right?
Unfortunately, there's no signature. However, 1963/NAA would suggest Gary Meyer, in addition to the strong similarity to at least two other works, to include the ‘cut’ pattern of the cutaway views... one of those conclusively identified as Mr. Meyer. I'm counting this as another ‘WIN’!
The verso bears alpha-numeric identification similar to that used by North American Aviation/Rockwell, for the illustrations featured in this latter news/press publication. So I’m assuming this image was possibly used in some earlier similar documentation:
cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/413105/Apollo%20Press%20Kits/North...
The parent site to the above…likely from the which the above link can be better reached:
www.apollopresskits.com/apollo-presskit-directory
Credit: David Meerman Scott
As an aside, I do believe Mr. Scott used this photo (far left panel) of mine in his splash page:
www.flickr.com/photos/146423059@N02/46528010321/in/album-...
a_v_bw_o_n (1963 original NAA news photo, no. A-4)
“MOTHER SHIP – Artist’s drawing shows the Apollo “mother ship” as it may look in orbit around the Moon just before the three Houston astronauts return to Earth. The three men sit in the pointed “command module” or cabin. Behind them is the “service module” that contains the huge rocket that will fire them away from their Moon orbit and return them to Earth. Near Earth the cone-shaped command module will be separated from the service module, and the astronauts will fall to Earth in their three-man cabin.”
Note the large strake - even casting a shadow – on the exterior of the Command Module. To me, the crew looks to be near earth, but hey, earth/moon, whatever...close enough for government work, right?
Unfortunately, there's no signature. However, 1963/NAA would suggest Gary Meyer, in addition to the strong similarity to at least two other works, to include the ‘cut’ pattern of the cutaway views... one of those conclusively identified as Mr. Meyer. I'm counting this as another ‘WIN’!
The verso bears alpha-numeric identification similar to that used by North American Aviation/Rockwell, for the illustrations featured in this latter news/press publication. So I’m assuming this image was possibly used in some earlier similar documentation:
cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/413105/Apollo%20Press%20Kits/North...
The parent site to the above…likely from the which the above link can be better reached:
www.apollopresskits.com/apollo-presskit-directory
Credit: David Meerman Scott
As an aside, I do believe Mr. Scott used this photo (far left panel) of mine in his splash page:
www.flickr.com/photos/146423059@N02/46528010321/in/album-...