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Viking Spacecraft
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Viking Spacecraft
Some time in the mid 1970's: The Viking spacecraft at rest on the surface of Mars. This unmanned mission scheduled for 1976 will obtain vital data and perhaps give some answer to centuries of speculation about the possibility of life on the red planet. The extended arm of the lander is scooping up a sample of Martian soil for analysis, while the television cameras in the yellow-topped poles swing around to scan the landscape. The data and pictures will be transmitted back to Earth by means of the mother craft (upper left).
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The First Manned Mission to Mars
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The First Manned Mission to Mars
The first manned mission to Mars, perhaps in the 1990's. Inside a space station in orbit two scientists observe the launch of the mission. The two spacecraft were assembled in Earth orbit and are now being simultaneously launched for the planet Mars. The outer boosters of each are firing, while the central one will remain inactive until the craft reaches the vicinity of the planet. There it might be used to adjust the orbit, and later it will be fired for the return journey. The nuclear-powered ships, each manned by a crew of six, will travel as a pair for safety's sake. Each is capable of accommodating the crew of the other in the event of a breakdown.
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Mission Control; The First Manned Mission to Mars
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Mission Control; The First Manned Mission to Mars
Scientists at mission control watch the first manned mission to Mars. The satellite Phobus looms large on the television screen, with the arc of the planet behind it. One of the two Mars craft is seen in orbit, its side boosters now jettisoned; the scene is presumably being televised by the second Mars craft.
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The First Mars Lander
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The First Mars Lander
The first Mars lander has touched down, the cargo hatch has opened, and the Mars rover has rolled out. The second Mars craft, its descent engines flaming, eases its way down. Each of the landing craft has a crew of three, with three remaining behind with the mother ship-one of which is seen here in orbit.
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Advanced Mars Base
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Advanced Mars Base
A more advanced Mars base, perhaps early in the 21st century. A specialized Mars lander with an astronomical observatory on top is in the foreground; four other landers have opened their hatches and unloaded equipment - including some for the mining operation taking place at right. In the distance another Mars lander is about to touch
down.
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Advanced Mars Base (detail)
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Advanced Mars Base (detail)
A detail shows the ski-like foot of the huge lander and an astronaut riding a space-cycle. The large tank-like vehicle is a mobile laboratory.
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Advanced Mars Base (detail)
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Advanced Mars Base (detail)
Detail with another laboratory vehicle, this one with solar panels deployed. The Mars explorers wear spacesuits much like those worn by Apollo astronauts. Unlike our Moon, Mars has 'an atmosphere, although it is extremely tenuous and consists mostly of carbon monoxide.
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Spaceport, 21st Century
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Spaceport, 21st Century
Eventually space facilities of this type may serve as way stations for interplanetary travelers, while also acting as orbiting scientific bases, rescue areas, weather stations - even space factories for the manufacture of sophisticated goods that could be produced only in the vacuum and zero gravity of space. The illuminated portal is the launch deck, where spacecraft can discharge passengers and cargo and be launched back into space to continue their journeys to the Moon, the planets, or to return to Earth. This large station would be assembled in space from prefabricated geodesic elements.
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Rendezvous in Lunar Orbit
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Rendezvous in Lunar Orbit
Rendezvous in lunar orbit re-supplies a moon base-the glowing cross of tights at lower right. At the far end of a , nuclear ferry used to shuttle men and supplies from Earth orbit to lunar orbit, a stumpy "space tug" grasps cargo containers in its mechanical arms, The tug stacks the canisters on its top, then descends to the base to unload and return. Sunlight glints on a solar panel of a space station as astronauts tethered to it maneuver by individual rocket packs. All three crafts are in synchronous orbit above the Moon base.
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Advanced Lunar Rover (detail)
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Advanced Lunar Rover (detail)
Specialized vehicles will play essential roles in the exploration of the Moon that must precede extensive colonization. This scene - possible by the mid or late 1980 's an advanced lunar rover in the foreground, and in the background another type, one with a plexiglass bubble which would allow astronauts to work without cumbersome spacesuits. A space tug is parked at the right and another is just taking off.
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Operating an Individual Maneuvering Unit
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Operating an Individual Maneuvering Unit
An astronaut operating an individual maneuvering unit flies miles above the lunar surface. The lights of a colony are visible in the crater at upper right.
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Three Types of Lunar Vehicles
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Three Types of Lunar Vehicles
In the foreground a one-man flying vehicle with an antenna, a rocket system far forward thrust mounted aft, and a gimbaled rocket engine underneath. Right is a land rover with a solar panel for collecting energy from the Sun and a high-gain antenna for communication with the Earth. Flying in the distance is a lunar bus, a vehicle designed for long-distance travel and capable of carrying 10 to 15 passengers.
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City Beneath the Lunar Crust
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City Beneath the Lunar Crust
A vast area excavated by atomic power is supplied with an atmosphere that allows people to live much as they would on the surface of the Earth. At top center is a circular solar well reaching up to the surface of the Moon through which solar energy and sunlight's are transmitted to the city below. The atomic power plant at upper right supplies the energy that is required by the city during the two-week lunar might. At left is a transportation facility; passengers will board the Earth ferry; once in Earth orbit they will transfer to an Earth shuttle that will take them to the surface.
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Space Hospital
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Space Hospital (detail)
Patients with certain illnesses might be brought from Earth to recover in the reduced gravity of this environment.
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Two-Man Sortie Vehicle
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Two-Man Sortie Vehicle
A small two-man sortie vehicle departs on some specialized mission.
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An Accident in Space
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An Accident in Space
Astronauts at work retrieving a satellite that has perhaps been struck by a meteorite or damaged by an internal explosion. The view is from the inside of a recovery port of a very large space station in lunar orbit. One of the most valuable functions of such stations will be the recovering and repair of objects in space.
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Vast Solar Field
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Vast Solar Field
Nuclear power and solar energy make the new environment workable. Here at left is a space city; on the right is a vast solar field that converts sunlight into microwaves and beams the energy to Earth, where it would be transformed into electricity, thus providing earth with an inexhaustible supply of pollution-free power. The one-man work modules at right are repairing meteoroid damage to the solar field.
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Voyage to Jupiter
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Voyage to Jupiter
Voyage to Jupiter, a scene from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. An astronaut (just visible through the window) maneuvers his one-man pod for some exterior task, while the huge spaceship "Discovery" drifts toward Jupiter
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City on the Moon
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City on the Moon
A century from now a city on the Moon might look like this. Providing water on the arid Moon to sustain a colony this size would be a basic problem, but by this distant time we may suppose that this requirement will have been met. The huge hemispherical transportation modules would be self-sustaining and could house sizeable colonies of workers as well as moving them from site to site.
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City Beneath the-Moon's Surface
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City Beneath the-Moon's Surface
A highly developed city beneath the-Moon's surface. The inhabitants dwell in an idyllic environment-perpetual daylight and perfect weather--and in the reduced gravity people move about with ease. Slow moving hovercraft buses provide transportation within the city center. The tall columns provide elevator service to the surface.
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City in the Sky
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City in the Sky
Since anything man can imagine begins to seem possible, perhaps the time will come when he can control the effects of gravity. Then this incredible metropolis suspended among the clouds could become a reality. The city would be largely self-sufficient: here there is a transportation center in the tower and a park area under the transparent dome; apartment complexes along the lower level might house a population of half a million.
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Steel Sphere
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Steel Sphere
This fantastic-looking vehicle, a huge steel sphere assembled in space, would propel itself by small atomic charges. A jet of water injected into the chamber forms a hot gas that helps propel the ship, leaving a trail of puffs like those behind a similar craft passing the Moon at the bottom of the painting. The crew rides in the triangular segment in front, which detaches and returns to Earth, leaving the mother ship in orbit to wait for a new nose and a fresh crew.
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Moon, Earth and Sun
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Moon, Earth and Sun
The surface of the Moon, the globe of the Earth, the Sun. Copernicus taught us that we are not the center, but until men stood on the Moon and looked back to the small sphere of Earth we did not quite believe it. By 2200 we may have explored and colonized our solar system and have learned more of man's capacities and his place in the universe.
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