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This idea came to me 4 years ago, at first it was supposed to be just a futuristic version of Lara Croft set on a satellite of Jupiter (or Saturn) in the year 2038, then I went down with my feet on the Earth and I imagined it like a journey between art, architecture and wild nature with Victoria Beecroft as protagonist, that is, for those who have not guessed it, a character halfway between Lara Croft and Vanessa Beecroft
there is an Album called "Victoria Beecroft'a training time" (with BN photo) from 2019 with the main character as a preview
Screenshot of the beauty of Elite Dangerous.
Tools used: Image Composite Editor, Lightroom color correction custom preset.
Busy start to the week using Mares machine, something I practiced already on Earth: it helps us understand how our muscles behave in 0-G. Part of the experiment includes giving small shocks to our muscles... Oh the perks of being both the tester and the test subject :-) When you don't use a muscle, you'll end up losing it: since here in space we are flying rather than walking our joints and muscles deteriorate faster than on Earth . With the help of the MARES machine, the Sarcolab experiment helps us to track and understand how our knee and ankle muscles in particular are affected by weightlessness.
Primo lunedí di duro lavoro con il montaggio di MARES per un esperimento che studia come i nostri muscoli deteriorano in microgravitá. L'esperimento prevede anche che i nostri muscoli ricevano delle piccole scosse elettriche...i privilegi di essere sia cavia sia scienziato! Se un muscolo non viene usato si finisce per perderlo: dato che qui sulla Stazione Spaziale voliamo invece di camminare articolazioni e muscoli si deteriorano piú in fretta che sulla Terra. Con l'aiuto di MARE, il macchinario in foto, l'esperimento Sarcolab ci aiuta a tenere traccia e capire come in particolare le nostre ginocchia e caviglie siano condizionate dall'assenza di peso.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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Astronaut Jack Lousma surveys the damage from an incredible vantage point -- Earth and Skylab are reflected in the gold-coated visor of Astronaut Jack Lousma during a spacewalk in which he and fellow Skylab 3 crewman Owen Garriott deployed the second sunshade. The sunshade was created by team members at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. to replace the micrometeoroid shield, a thin protective cylinder surrounding the workshop protecting it from tiny space particles and the sun's scorching heat.
Image credit: NASA
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mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=2783
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The International Space Station flying over the house tonight and if you look closely you can also see the SpaceX Dragon capsule, that was launched yesterday, chasing it (faint line, up and to the right of the ISS)
"Lockheed's "Power Tower" Space Station design."
The above contributes to circular reporting, which I guess if it's correct, is tepidly "okay", although it doesn't advance the noble & altruistic goal of providing additional information. Originally (I believe), at:
www.astronautix.com/s/scienceandaspaceplatform.html
www.astronautix.com/p/powertowersestation-1984.html
Both credit: Astronautix website/Marcus Lindroos
And, verbatim, at:
www.pmview.com/spaceodysseytwo/station/tsld035.htm
Credit: PMView Pro website
Also, cut out of the identical image used by both of the above, is another space station, dangerously close I might add 😉, that appears to be based on a preceding concept: that being (CAUTION: impending SWAG) something like the "Space Platform/Space Operations Center", Science and Applications Manned Space Platform (SAMSP) or maybe even the "Racetrack" configuration. Examples of the latter available at:
www.astronautix.com/s/spacestation1984.html
Credit: Astronautix website/Marcus Lindroos
...all of which were NASA/JSC designs.
The object in the immediate vicinity of the Power Tower looks like a Large Space Telescope, sans solar arrays.
The artist is Park Merrill, the image being on the front cover of “Lockheed Horizons”, Issue Seventeen, February 1985. A WIN.
The image was additonally featured on the cover of Vol. V-I-253, January 1985 issue of "Space World" magazine, accompanied by the following caption:
"U.S. manned space station is to be in Earth orbit by 1992. Conceptual drawing depicts a large antenna for technology demonstrations attached to the station's lower mast. The Space Shuttle is shown next to the modules where space station crews will work and live. Four solar arrays provide power for space station operations. A large box-shaped hangar, pictured between the solar arrays, would be used to service orbital transfer vehicles."
Finally & most importantly:
"Park Merrill, a native Californian, was born in Fortuna, Humboldt County, in 1938. From an early age, Merrill showed signs of an artistic nature.
After high school, Merrill attended Humboldt State College for a year and a half, taking many art courses. Wanting a more intensive art education, he attended the four-year professional art school, Art Center College of Design, located in Los Angeles at that time. Art Center is one of the three most prestigious art schools in the country.
After graduating from Art Center in 1963, Merrill worked as an illustrator and graphic artist, ending his career with 27 years at Lockheed Missiles & Space Company in Sunnyvale. During that time he painted conceptual designs for satellite systems and other high-tech space programs such as Star Wars, Space Station Freedom, and the Hubble Space Telescope.
Since his retirement, Merrill has developed his fine art skills and a style he calls "Soft Impressions of California." These images are from California's colorful past and present. Painted in oil, they combine pastel colors with soft edges. "This has been the most exciting work I have done to date," says Merrill and it is his hope that the art-viewing public will agree."
The above at/from, because you never know when it'll be gone:
steamboats.com/museum/davet-illustrationspaintingsmoderna...
Credit: "Online Steamboat Museum"/Dave Thomson Collection
A steamboat museum site, who'da thunk?! And actually, there's a beautiful example of Mr. Merrill's work.
He even has a book dedicated to him & his works:
hihartstudio.com/BookService.html
Credit: HIH Art Studio website
The post-"space" careers of many-an-artist is fascinating. For most, the space work was a job. It was later that they pursued their true artistic passions, interests or possibly strong suites.
It makes their "work" output that much more impressive.
“SPACE WORKSHOP — Concept of Saturn S-IVB Orbital Workshop by Douglas Aircraft Company artist shows how giant rocket will appear after it is converted into two-story experimental laboratory in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Apollo Applications Program. The S-IVB stage (right) will be launched fully fueled, carrying the docking adapter and airlock seen in center. These will give astronauts access to the rocket’s liquid hydrogen tank after propellants have been depleted and will provide a “shirtsleeve” environment inside. Astronauts will be launched separately in an Apollo vehicle, rendezvous with the S-IVB and dock as shown at left. Cutaway section of S-IVB shows floor and partitions of lightweight metal grating which will divide the tank into separate “rooms” for astronaut activities without interfering with flow of fuel during launch. The “wings,” panels of solar cells to provide electric power, are folded down against the S-IVB during launch and extended after orbit is achieved. Windmill-like structure against side of the docking adapter is the Apollo Telescope Mount which will be added to the Workshop in second phase of program. Douglas, a component of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, builds the S-IVB at its Missile & Space Systems Division, Huntington Beach, Calif., for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and is making necessary modifications to the Orbiting Workshop vehicle under MSFC direction. The airlock is being developed by the McDonnell Astronautics Company, St. Louis, Mo., under contract to NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center.”
Beautiful artwork by Neil Jacobe.
allsouls.tributes.com/show/Neil-Edmund-Jacobe-95410682
Credit: All Souls Mortuary website
THANK YOU Mr. Jacobe, RIP.
My very first space station MOC. I had a lot of purple curved panels lying around and started experimenting. Grape Space Station was born!
A Space moc I put together to try out the SNOT technique for the first time, I was considering filling the weapon racks with Brickforge but I decided to make it purist.
Busy start to the week preparing MARES machine for an experiment that studies how muscles deteriorate in microgravity.
Primi giorni di duro lavoro con il montaggio di MARES per un esp. che studia come i nostri muscoli deteriorano in microgravità.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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“This weird looking craft is a space station suggested by engineers of Chance Vought’s astronautics division. It would consist of a satellite laboratory coupled with a re-entry vehicle for the return to earth and would accommodate three men. Two large sail-like solar cell arrangements would provide electric power.”
More specifically, the depiction is of the “Earth Orbital Mission” configuration of Project MALLAR:
"... All this talk of moon bases at the Pentagon during 1959 (while NASA’s Mercury astronauts were reporting for duty) stimulated several top aerospace contractors to begin their own internal studies for advanced spaceflight. While Boeing focused on the winged Dyna-Soar for the Air Force, the Chance Vought Company in Dallas, Texas, put hundreds of person-hours into a concept called Project MALLAR (Manned Lunar Landing and Return).
Heading up the study for Vought was a brilliant young Trinidad-born aerospace engineer of Asian descent named Conrad “Connie” Lau, who had been co-designer of the F8U Crusader fighter jet (which experience had brought him in contact with a young John Glenn). Lau sub-contracted work on MALLAR to a wide array of smaller companies, and by the end of December 1959 he was ready to show his plans to a visiting congressional delegation.
MALLAR consisted of a three-module system attached to a trans-lunar injection booster stage. Lau’s team concluded that the spacecraft should be placed into lunar orbit, and that a landing module carrying two crew would be sent from there down to the lunar surface. On February 15, 1960, Abe Silverstein, the head of NASA’s space efforts, ordered the agency’s Space Task Group to essentially follow MALLAR’s template. About 18 months later, NASA Langley engineer John Houbolt created MALLIR (Manned Lunar Landing Involving Rendezvous), which was in many respects very similar to MALLAR, incorporating a three-module system and a lunar orbit rendezvous. Within a year MALLIR had evolved into Apollo.”
Who knew??? Did you?? I didn’t!
Above, along with a nice CG version, at:
www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/forgotten-plans-reach-mo...
thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/Ugpi1QAP6RSGxz11dwMSxnwvIBw=/fit-i...
www.vought.org/peoplaces/html/blau.html
Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space online magazine website
Also, outstanding:
www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/new-information-voughts-...
www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/unidentified-ltv-space-c...
Credit: Secret Projects website
Chance Vought…I only recall them from their substantial World War II aircraft production efforts.
The pivoting? cylindrical? thing on the right…a telescope maybe?
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never will I forsake you.”
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Cute girl outfit from Lunasia Moon
Created using Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, aka, "Nano Banana."
Inspiration from the old space opera PC games, "Privateer" and "Freelancer."
See more here: www.youtube.com/@journeymanplayer7459
LC-A+ RL / expired (05/05) Kodak Ektachrome E100GX, cross processed in C41 chemicals.
Double exposure on 35mm film.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars upward after lifting off from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule for the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. Liftoff occurred at 3:22 p.m. EDT. Behnken and Hurley are the first astronauts to launch from U.S. soil to the space station since the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, Demo-2 is SpaceX’s final flight test, paving the way for the agency to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory. Photo credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Tim Powers
The International Space Station / ISS
The ISS is a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in low Earth orbit, with an orbital speed of 17,100 mph (27,600 km/h). It has been continuously occupied by humans since November 2000. It is the largest artificial satellite in orbit with a length of 357.5 ft (109 m).
This image was processed like a small planetary image stack:
12 x 1/4000 second ISO6400 (best of 25 frames)
Apparent magnitude: -3.5
Apparent diameter: 42"
Distance: 335 mi (539 km) at 49° altitude
Atmospheric seeing: 2/5
Captured from 23:37:40 to 23:37:44 UTC on 02/05/22
Location: Summerville, SC
Camera: Canon 7D Mark II
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED80 f/6.0 Apochromatic Refractor
Barlow: Tele Vue 2x Barlow 1.25" (effective magnification is 2.86x for 1377mm focal length at f/17.2)
Tripod: Cayer BV30L 72" Aluminum Tripod with K3 Fluid Head
Processed with PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, and Paint.NET
Two floors in the rim, each nine feet high, are the inhabited areas in the space station. Above and below the inhabited areas are three-foot high compartments for storage, water tanks, air conditioning ducts, electrical cables and similar equipment.
What separates the outside from the inside of the space station “is the meteor bumper – a thin sheet of metal which stops the grains of cosmic dust that fly through space – and a skin of reinforced plastic which keeps air in. Either nylon or wire mesh is imbedded in the plastic, making it strong and light. This plastic is stretched over metal ribs which give the rim its shape and provide additional strength.” [Summarizing and Quoting from the text]
The Aether Interplanetary Space Station is the pinnacle of Legoland's scientific and technological development. Designed to compete with NASA's Lunar Gateway, it surpasses the latter and takes the concept of an interplanetary space station to the extreme, becoming one of the most ambitious engineering projects of all time. The Aether has an expandable modular design, 2 docking modules, a laboratory module, 3 living modules, and a control module to which a robotic telescopic arm is connected. The space station can accommodate 3 to 5 astronauts, and is equipped with the latest technologies in the aerospace field. The Aether is also equipped with a revolutionary ionization engine, more efficient and faster than normal rocket engines, plus numerous photovoltaic panels for power, a solar panel, and numerous telecommunications antennas on each frequency. The Aether is the strong point of the "Asgard" ecosystem, also consisting of capsules, landers and interplanetary probes, which sees Legoland take man to the Moon and Mars, before the USA.
Learning how to make a space composition of different images!
Three images made this.
Images sourced from NASA
The Milky Way pano
Credit: ESO/S. Brunier
The international space station seen fram Farø Denmark. via 500px ift.tt/2u7TSZy For more please visit www.bernholdt.dk
Screenshot of the beauty of Prey (2017).
Tools used: Otis_Inf 's Camera/Hud Tool, Lightroom color correction custom preset.
In the future a new earth-like planet - named Ademis - is discovered. A group of people with different skills is sent to Ademis to live there and examine the pre-conditions for a larger colony to be established.
This is a health care module with a garden passage, examination area, treatment room and surgery room.
My previous MOC Part I is a habitat example module. My aim is to build further example modules to visualize the various functions of the colony.
Sequence of the ISS Transiting the Moon - Updated
Fixed to show the ISS on the edge of the Moon missing from the first version.
Taken at prime focus of Celestron EdgeHD 925 telescope with Canon 70D. 8 photographs stacked in PSE 12 and with an extra frame of the missing part of the moon merged into it.
The circumstances were just right: good seeing, focus, exposure, timing.
This photograph was published in the June 2015 Sky and Telescope magazine.
More details on how to take shots like this is on here: ejwwest.wordpress.com/imaging-the-international-space-sta...
View of European Space Agency (ESA) Andre Kuipers,Expedition 30 Flight Engineer (FE),with some food and drink packets floating in the Node 1 of the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: iss030e166645
Date: January 30, 2012
Long Exposure of the International Space Station passing overhead Winstanley, Wigan from West to East.
North American Rockwell artist's concept ca. 1969/70, depicting a "DC-3" shuttle deploying a satellite in earth orbit. The shuttle design was developed, patented and promoted by renowned NASA Engineer, Dr. Maxime Faget. Note the air-breathing engine visible atop the wing.
While I normally regurgitate the original press slug/caption, since I often find them amusing and/or quaint, NOT this time, even I have limits…it’s pure schlock…and I know schlock, since I sometimes dispense it myself! “Whirling”, really...whirling? 😉
Although no signature is visible, the striking image is by Henry Lozano Jr., North American Aviation/North American Rockwell artist/illustrator extraordinaire. Appropriately enough, Mr. Lozano was 1970 President of the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles (SILA):
Credit: SILA website
Excellent site:
www.pmview.com/spaceodysseytwo/spacelvs/sld022.htm
Credit: PMView website
Also:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_DC-3
Credit Wikipedia
The following exemplifies a golden nugget, i.e., "WIN", that keeps me going down rabbit hole after rabbit hole, time after time. The payoff in this instance being Mr. Lozano’s visible signature near the lower right corner:
kssunews.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/previously-unseen-space...
Specifically, the following...gorgeous. Note however, although the shuttle & satellite are the same, and in the same relative positions, their orbital perspective is different and the space station in the background has been removed. Secondarily, and possibly as a correction, the intake of the air-breathing wing-top-mounted engine has been completed(?):
kssunews.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/space-shuttle-28129.jpg
Both above credit: Sacramento State/Associated Students, Inc. blogsite
Lastly, I had no idea there were this many designs, proposals & variations:
io9.gizmodo.com/early-design-specs-show-the-space-shuttle...
Credit: Gizmodo website