fut/sps_v_c_o_TPMBK (S-78-23143)
“SPACE SHUTTLE VISITS CONSTRUCTION FACILITY --- This artist’s concept depicts a Space Shuttle orbiter (right) as it visits a construction facility in space. The maze of latticework and other hardware exemplify the formidability of scale required by a solar power satellite, the subject addressed by JSC Director Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., in his presentation to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics last spring. This frame, a rendering by artist John J. Olson, was used in the presentation.”
Something I've never noticed before; the fictitious company name/logo on the Boeing HLLV is different than that of my black & white version (linked to below), and all (what few) others I’ve come across:
(USI) UNITED SPACE…INDUSTRIES(?), INCORPORATED(?), INSTITUTE(?)
vs.
SUNSAT SPACEWAYS INC.
This would then appear to be a unicorn of an image.
I wonder why there were two variants (or more?), and, which one came first?
Interesting, to me.
I’m surprised the NASA photo clowns recognized/attributed the artwork...something almost exclusively reserved for those by Robert McCall.
fut/sps_v_c_o_TPMBK (S-78-23143)
“SPACE SHUTTLE VISITS CONSTRUCTION FACILITY --- This artist’s concept depicts a Space Shuttle orbiter (right) as it visits a construction facility in space. The maze of latticework and other hardware exemplify the formidability of scale required by a solar power satellite, the subject addressed by JSC Director Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., in his presentation to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics last spring. This frame, a rendering by artist John J. Olson, was used in the presentation.”
Something I've never noticed before; the fictitious company name/logo on the Boeing HLLV is different than that of my black & white version (linked to below), and all (what few) others I’ve come across:
(USI) UNITED SPACE…INDUSTRIES(?), INCORPORATED(?), INSTITUTE(?)
vs.
SUNSAT SPACEWAYS INC.
This would then appear to be a unicorn of an image.
I wonder why there were two variants (or more?), and, which one came first?
Interesting, to me.
I’m surprised the NASA photo clowns recognized/attributed the artwork...something almost exclusively reserved for those by Robert McCall.