vilo1/2_v_bw_o_n (76-H-67, 76-HC-53, C-1977-534 eq)
“This artist’s symbolic representation of the United States Viking mission to Mars shows the spacecraft against a backdrop of the Red Planet. Vikings 1 and 2 were launched toward Mars in August and September 1975 to conduct a detailed examination of the planet, including a search for life. Viking will reach Mars on June 19, and its lander will descend to the surface about July 4. The second Viking will arrive at the planet on Aug. 7, with Lander 2 descending during the first week in September.”
The photo is oriented with Martian north toward the top.
Note the "attitude control gas jets" at the ends of the solar arrays.
A rarely seen (by me at least) depiction of a Viking orbiter/lander configuration inflight. Featured as the cover for NASA news release no. 76-116, “VIKING PRESS HANDBOOK”, which I don’t recall. Good stuff in it:
ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760019036...
In color:
www.fourth-millennium.net/space-exploration/viking-missio...
Credit: Fourth Millennium website/Corby Waste
archive.org/details/C-1977-534
ia800207.us.archive.org/24/items/C-1977-534/1977_00534.jpg
Both above credit: Internet Archive website
No signature visible. Although too simplistic/myopic of an association, it being Viking, possibly by Charles O. Bennett? Paul Fjeld maybe? I'm pretty sure it's not by Don Davis, the other prominent Viking spacecraft artist/illustrator of the time. Nor Jim Butcher...and I have no idea who else there was.
vilo1/2_v_bw_o_n (76-H-67, 76-HC-53, C-1977-534 eq)
“This artist’s symbolic representation of the United States Viking mission to Mars shows the spacecraft against a backdrop of the Red Planet. Vikings 1 and 2 were launched toward Mars in August and September 1975 to conduct a detailed examination of the planet, including a search for life. Viking will reach Mars on June 19, and its lander will descend to the surface about July 4. The second Viking will arrive at the planet on Aug. 7, with Lander 2 descending during the first week in September.”
The photo is oriented with Martian north toward the top.
Note the "attitude control gas jets" at the ends of the solar arrays.
A rarely seen (by me at least) depiction of a Viking orbiter/lander configuration inflight. Featured as the cover for NASA news release no. 76-116, “VIKING PRESS HANDBOOK”, which I don’t recall. Good stuff in it:
ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760019036...
In color:
www.fourth-millennium.net/space-exploration/viking-missio...
Credit: Fourth Millennium website/Corby Waste
archive.org/details/C-1977-534
ia800207.us.archive.org/24/items/C-1977-534/1977_00534.jpg
Both above credit: Internet Archive website
No signature visible. Although too simplistic/myopic of an association, it being Viking, possibly by Charles O. Bennett? Paul Fjeld maybe? I'm pretty sure it's not by Don Davis, the other prominent Viking spacecraft artist/illustrator of the time. Nor Jim Butcher...and I have no idea who else there was.