a_v_bw_o_n (ca. 1964 Ryan Aeronautical Co. official photo, no. 4247)
Beautifully depicted powered descent by a ca. 1964 LEM configuration. Being a Ryan Aeronautical illustration, surely promoting their landing radar. Possibly/likely by the immensely talented artist, Robert Watts, although I'm not sure if this was during his time with Ryan Aeronautical.
Possibly rendered in pencil/charcoal?
Note the round forward egress/ingress hatch, large porch and apparent lack of a ladder...at least not attached to the landing strut.
Upon further inspection, the LEM depicted appears to be a hybrid between the Test Model-1 (TM-1) configuration - with the “truss”? mounted RCS thruster quads, and the M-5 LEM configuration - with the faceted left & right ascent stage protrusions...both shown below. I know, TMI.
AWESOME:
a_v_bw_o_n (ca. 1964 Ryan Aeronautical Co. official photo, no. 4247)
Beautifully depicted powered descent by a ca. 1964 LEM configuration. Being a Ryan Aeronautical illustration, surely promoting their landing radar. Possibly/likely by the immensely talented artist, Robert Watts, although I'm not sure if this was during his time with Ryan Aeronautical.
Possibly rendered in pencil/charcoal?
Note the round forward egress/ingress hatch, large porch and apparent lack of a ladder...at least not attached to the landing strut.
Upon further inspection, the LEM depicted appears to be a hybrid between the Test Model-1 (TM-1) configuration - with the “truss”? mounted RCS thruster quads, and the M-5 LEM configuration - with the faceted left & right ascent stage protrusions...both shown below. I know, TMI.
AWESOME: