g08_v_bw_o_n (1966 press photo, poss. no. 5 (of an unk. sequence))
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 of it to translate to, don and test the Extravehicular Support Package (ESP) for the first time. A feat never to occur.
The press slug associated with it:
“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 pack he will wear for extended space walking.”
Excellent:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/001489.html
Credit: collectSPACE website
This gorgeous work, to me, is a tour de force by Russell 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, a towering drive, eventually dropping into the adjacent parking lot…with the bases loaded…in extra innings…during an away game. Yeah, hyperbole, but this is mad skills on display.
g08_v_bw_o_n (1966 press photo, poss. no. 5 (of an unk. sequence))
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 of it to translate to, don and test the Extravehicular Support Package (ESP) for the first time. A feat never to occur.
The press slug associated with it:
“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 pack he will wear for extended space walking.”
Excellent:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/001489.html
Credit: collectSPACE website
This gorgeous work, to me, is a tour de force by Russell 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, a towering drive, eventually dropping into the adjacent parking lot…with the bases loaded…in extra innings…during an away game. Yeah, hyperbole, but this is mad skills on display.