a (ca. 1967-69, J. Harrelson concept, internet download)
A wonderfully incorrect & patriotic artist’s concept of a Major Matt Mason-like Apollo Astronaut planting the U.S. Flag on the lunar surface! Look at the size of that thing! Darned tootin’ it’s going to take that Christmas Tree-like stand to hold it up. And, note the serious DPS-produced crater!
I’ve seen this depiction several times over the past half-century; however, not in any ‘official NASA capacity’. Although I can’t quite place it, I associate it with widespread local press publications. Like as the cover of a special Sunday newspaper insert; a Space Coast tourist/promotional advertising booklet, pamphlet, brochure, etc; maybe even on the cover of the “Astronaut Trail”…stuff like that.
Unfortunately, nothing on the artist, J. Harrelson. Enigmatic, in that there’s not even a fragmentary track record on him/her - at least not that I’ve come across - until he/she fortunately & surprisingly, re-emerged ~15 years later with the sophisticated space station depiction linked below. Over that long of a period, I would’ve expected at least another couple of works to have turned up if employed by NASA or one of its major contractors. So, based on nothing but that, I’m considering him to be a freelancer…at least of space stuff. In support of such is the fact he/she was responsible for the cover art of Catalytic • Dow’s Apollo 11 press kit. Along with:
www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/1feo9a3/could_i_get_some_h...
Credit: Reddit
Regardless, a few obscure dots connected, i.e., a WIN.
a (ca. 1967-69, J. Harrelson concept, internet download)
A wonderfully incorrect & patriotic artist’s concept of a Major Matt Mason-like Apollo Astronaut planting the U.S. Flag on the lunar surface! Look at the size of that thing! Darned tootin’ it’s going to take that Christmas Tree-like stand to hold it up. And, note the serious DPS-produced crater!
I’ve seen this depiction several times over the past half-century; however, not in any ‘official NASA capacity’. Although I can’t quite place it, I associate it with widespread local press publications. Like as the cover of a special Sunday newspaper insert; a Space Coast tourist/promotional advertising booklet, pamphlet, brochure, etc; maybe even on the cover of the “Astronaut Trail”…stuff like that.
Unfortunately, nothing on the artist, J. Harrelson. Enigmatic, in that there’s not even a fragmentary track record on him/her - at least not that I’ve come across - until he/she fortunately & surprisingly, re-emerged ~15 years later with the sophisticated space station depiction linked below. Over that long of a period, I would’ve expected at least another couple of works to have turned up if employed by NASA or one of its major contractors. So, based on nothing but that, I’m considering him to be a freelancer…at least of space stuff. In support of such is the fact he/she was responsible for the cover art of Catalytic • Dow’s Apollo 11 press kit. Along with:
www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/1feo9a3/could_i_get_some_h...
Credit: Reddit
Regardless, a few obscure dots connected, i.e., a WIN.