fut_v_c_o_TPMBK (verso hand-annotated 5312, ca. 1981-90 Eagle Engineering photo)
“SPACE TRANSPORTATION EVOLUTION”
Unfortunately, “NO”.
A veritable flotilla comprised primarily of never/not to be spacecraft are depicted enroute to fanciful destinations.
I’m having a hard time determining where the boundary - if such even exists - is between computer-generation & time-tested, old-fashioned, hand-created artwork within this. Although the spacecraft have an airbrushed appearance, their ‘geometry’, along with the grid lines – which I’ve always attributed to be an ‘artifact’ of early computer-generated depictions – imparts a sort of clinical artificiality.
Oddly & thankfully, not a single NASA worm logo to be seen.
Other than the space shuttle stack on the far left - with the multi-nozzled "stielhandgranate" solid? rocket booster design and the twin-engine mini-shuttle/lifting body/sortie vehicle/X-?? thing on the far right, I think I've identified the other craft in "Tags".
Also thankfully, the artist’s first name & first letter of last name is visible, who’s likely Doug McLeod. Thereby a WIN.
fut_v_c_o_TPMBK (verso hand-annotated 5312, ca. 1981-90 Eagle Engineering photo)
“SPACE TRANSPORTATION EVOLUTION”
Unfortunately, “NO”.
A veritable flotilla comprised primarily of never/not to be spacecraft are depicted enroute to fanciful destinations.
I’m having a hard time determining where the boundary - if such even exists - is between computer-generation & time-tested, old-fashioned, hand-created artwork within this. Although the spacecraft have an airbrushed appearance, their ‘geometry’, along with the grid lines – which I’ve always attributed to be an ‘artifact’ of early computer-generated depictions – imparts a sort of clinical artificiality.
Oddly & thankfully, not a single NASA worm logo to be seen.
Other than the space shuttle stack on the far left - with the multi-nozzled "stielhandgranate" solid? rocket booster design and the twin-engine mini-shuttle/lifting body/sortie vehicle/X-?? thing on the far right, I think I've identified the other craft in "Tags".
Also thankfully, the artist’s first name & first letter of last name is visible, who’s likely Doug McLeod. Thereby a WIN.