fut-Marsexp_v_c_o_TPMBK (AC87-0736-10)
“The shuttles release parachutes and then fire rockets for a soft landing on Mars. As the new crew arrives, the old crew leaves to rendezvous with the main spacecraft for the return voyage.”
Wow…who knew??? I didn’t. Did you???
Ranging from the artist, Carter Emmart (I think…possibly), if so, identified only because several of his works pertaining to this striking & creative series of who knows how many works (to include this one), eluded NASA/JPL? obfuscation, it apparently being part of the Mars Foundation’s “Mars Homestead Project”…still viewable FOR NOW (only as thumbnails), from its apparently defunct website…is this “available”.
Bits & pieces of this stunning visual record are strewn all over the place, with no rhyme or reason. The fact that this is one of many images of a storyboard is the only PASS NASA/JPL gets for the cursory caption. Other than that, yet another EPIC FAIL for preservation of [fill in the blank]. This is what’s available at the abysmal NASA Image/Video “library”, when searching on the root “AC87-0736-“ photo identification number:
images.nasa.gov/search-results?q=AC87-0736-&page=1&am...
And this, at one of multiple defunct NASA sites. AT LEAST they accidentally got this right, as it’s “being kept online for historical purposes”:
www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2004/mars/mars.html
It’s still TOTAL BS.
I GET IT - you can’t preserve, record, log, document, describe, etc., etc., everything. STILL – from my inconsequential foxhole – I’ve seen absolutely MINIMAL improvement, results, effort??? of such. At least since I’ve been posting my crap to the internet vacuum…and that’s been since 2016. I reiterate, that’s from MY foxhole, which I also acknowledge don’t mean shit & has NO weight.
YET, I’ve come across (at the active/’maintained’ website above) an absurd abundance of recent/contemporary, bland and IMHO, inconsequential images of otherwise great Americans performing mundane tasks at NASA, seemingly taken with the camera in burst mode…and it’s like W – T – F - OVER?! Those seem to be uploaded in earnest.
IN-FU-RI-A-TING.
One of the disjointed, standalone, but pertinent & informative tidbits:
Biconic Aerocapture Vehicle
Huh?
A combination of that, parachutes AND powered descent? Really? Seems excessive, but cool.
Slide no. 20:
www.slideserve.com/maeko/aerobraking
Credit: "SlideServe" website
fut-Marsexp_v_c_o_TPMBK (AC87-0736-10)
“The shuttles release parachutes and then fire rockets for a soft landing on Mars. As the new crew arrives, the old crew leaves to rendezvous with the main spacecraft for the return voyage.”
Wow…who knew??? I didn’t. Did you???
Ranging from the artist, Carter Emmart (I think…possibly), if so, identified only because several of his works pertaining to this striking & creative series of who knows how many works (to include this one), eluded NASA/JPL? obfuscation, it apparently being part of the Mars Foundation’s “Mars Homestead Project”…still viewable FOR NOW (only as thumbnails), from its apparently defunct website…is this “available”.
Bits & pieces of this stunning visual record are strewn all over the place, with no rhyme or reason. The fact that this is one of many images of a storyboard is the only PASS NASA/JPL gets for the cursory caption. Other than that, yet another EPIC FAIL for preservation of [fill in the blank]. This is what’s available at the abysmal NASA Image/Video “library”, when searching on the root “AC87-0736-“ photo identification number:
images.nasa.gov/search-results?q=AC87-0736-&page=1&am...
And this, at one of multiple defunct NASA sites. AT LEAST they accidentally got this right, as it’s “being kept online for historical purposes”:
www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2004/mars/mars.html
It’s still TOTAL BS.
I GET IT - you can’t preserve, record, log, document, describe, etc., etc., everything. STILL – from my inconsequential foxhole – I’ve seen absolutely MINIMAL improvement, results, effort??? of such. At least since I’ve been posting my crap to the internet vacuum…and that’s been since 2016. I reiterate, that’s from MY foxhole, which I also acknowledge don’t mean shit & has NO weight.
YET, I’ve come across (at the active/’maintained’ website above) an absurd abundance of recent/contemporary, bland and IMHO, inconsequential images of otherwise great Americans performing mundane tasks at NASA, seemingly taken with the camera in burst mode…and it’s like W – T – F - OVER?! Those seem to be uploaded in earnest.
IN-FU-RI-A-TING.
One of the disjointed, standalone, but pertinent & informative tidbits:
Biconic Aerocapture Vehicle
Huh?
A combination of that, parachutes AND powered descent? Really? Seems excessive, but cool.
Slide no. 20:
www.slideserve.com/maeko/aerobraking
Credit: "SlideServe" website