g08 (1966, NASA download, poss. no. 6 (of an unk. sequence))
R. ARASMITH ART COLLECTION
One of at least three (I think) gorgeous works by Russell Arasmith depicting Gemini VIII Astronaut, David R. Scott, during his planned EVA, the goal being translating to, and then donning & testing the Extravehicular Support Package (ESP) for the first time. A feat never to occur.
No caption/description is associated with this NASA-posted image, and I don’t have it in me to provide my usual drivel for it. However, the press slug associated with the preceding sequence for this phase of the mission follows:
“Next, Scott will move back toward Gemini (while Gemini and Agena still are docked) and proceed aft over the spacecraft, pulling up a handrail to help his movement over the retro (center) section and also using a second handrail over the equipment (aft) section that will be extended when the spacecraft leaves its booster at orbital insertion. This sequence is shown in 1, 2, 3, 4 order as Scott moves aft and takes a position (4) on a bar at rear end of the spacecraft, where he faces and checks out a special back he will wear for extended space walking.”
This gorgeous work, to me, is a tour de force by Mr. Arasmith. Pretty damned gutsy to attempted to depict an Extravehicular Activity (EVA) which had yet to occur, with only the photography from relatively static previous EVA’s as a ‘template’, with equipment that had yet to be used in flight, and from such a ’three-dimensionally’ demanding perspective. All without having it look goofy, awkward & somehow ‘wrong’.
Mr. Arasmith knocked it out of the park, into the wind, towering, into the adjacent parking lot. Yeah, hyperbole, but this is mad skills on display.
At, along with many others. Well worth browsing through:
www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/russ-arasmith-gemin...
g08 (1966, NASA download, poss. no. 6 (of an unk. sequence))
R. ARASMITH ART COLLECTION
One of at least three (I think) gorgeous works by Russell Arasmith depicting Gemini VIII Astronaut, David R. Scott, during his planned EVA, the goal being translating to, and then donning & testing the Extravehicular Support Package (ESP) for the first time. A feat never to occur.
No caption/description is associated with this NASA-posted image, and I don’t have it in me to provide my usual drivel for it. However, the press slug associated with the preceding sequence for this phase of the mission follows:
“Next, Scott will move back toward Gemini (while Gemini and Agena still are docked) and proceed aft over the spacecraft, pulling up a handrail to help his movement over the retro (center) section and also using a second handrail over the equipment (aft) section that will be extended when the spacecraft leaves its booster at orbital insertion. This sequence is shown in 1, 2, 3, 4 order as Scott moves aft and takes a position (4) on a bar at rear end of the spacecraft, where he faces and checks out a special back he will wear for extended space walking.”
This gorgeous work, to me, is a tour de force by Mr. Arasmith. Pretty damned gutsy to attempted to depict an Extravehicular Activity (EVA) which had yet to occur, with only the photography from relatively static previous EVA’s as a ‘template’, with equipment that had yet to be used in flight, and from such a ’three-dimensionally’ demanding perspective. All without having it look goofy, awkward & somehow ‘wrong’.
Mr. Arasmith knocked it out of the park, into the wind, towering, into the adjacent parking lot. Yeah, hyperbole, but this is mad skills on display.
At, along with many others. Well worth browsing through:
www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/russ-arasmith-gemin...