aap_v_c_o_AKP (NASA-S-65-2580, prob autopen)
A beautiful artist’s concept of an earth-orbiting Apollo Applications Program (AAP) configuration, possibly of an experimental micro-gravity biology module…maybe… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯…docked to the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM).
The scientist-astronaut seems – I think – to be using a snazzy microscope of some sort, although I’m having some perspective issues regarding it, to include what the large rectangular component with the conical appendage is being used for. Photomicrography? And how it correlates with the other components in the immediate vicinity, which may include dual/binocular eyepieces?
Note also the item that looks like a bubble helmet on the half shelf to the left of the scientist-astronaut. I think I see the vague, barely perceptible features of a human head inside it. Do you see it??? GOOD GOD, what kind of unholy experiments were under consideration?!? 😲😉
And, I can’t seem to identify the rough, textured, metallic(?)…’mass’ depicted on the other side of the module, across from the scientist-astronaut. And, it looks like there’s a fixed stool in front of it.
Based on the strong similarity of this CSM to that in another work I’ve linked to below, which is also from this series of works (based on photo ID no. sequence), I really think it, and this one is by Raymond Bruneau. That other one has the letters “RB”, with an arrow adjacent to it, depicted as if it were part of the surface markings on the exterior of the Service Module. That, and the fact that Mr. Bruneau chose to use actual photographs of the earth in a number of his earth orbit depictions, such as this one, gives me confidence in my identification.
Finally, although I haven’t been able to find a match from the exemplars available online, I’m sure the Neil Armstrong signature is an autopen.
aap_v_c_o_AKP (NASA-S-65-2580, prob autopen)
A beautiful artist’s concept of an earth-orbiting Apollo Applications Program (AAP) configuration, possibly of an experimental micro-gravity biology module…maybe… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯…docked to the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM).
The scientist-astronaut seems – I think – to be using a snazzy microscope of some sort, although I’m having some perspective issues regarding it, to include what the large rectangular component with the conical appendage is being used for. Photomicrography? And how it correlates with the other components in the immediate vicinity, which may include dual/binocular eyepieces?
Note also the item that looks like a bubble helmet on the half shelf to the left of the scientist-astronaut. I think I see the vague, barely perceptible features of a human head inside it. Do you see it??? GOOD GOD, what kind of unholy experiments were under consideration?!? 😲😉
And, I can’t seem to identify the rough, textured, metallic(?)…’mass’ depicted on the other side of the module, across from the scientist-astronaut. And, it looks like there’s a fixed stool in front of it.
Based on the strong similarity of this CSM to that in another work I’ve linked to below, which is also from this series of works (based on photo ID no. sequence), I really think it, and this one is by Raymond Bruneau. That other one has the letters “RB”, with an arrow adjacent to it, depicted as if it were part of the surface markings on the exterior of the Service Module. That, and the fact that Mr. Bruneau chose to use actual photographs of the earth in a number of his earth orbit depictions, such as this one, gives me confidence in my identification.
Finally, although I haven’t been able to find a match from the exemplars available online, I’m sure the Neil Armstrong signature is an autopen.