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The Soviet 14F191 combat space station is an 80s two-module station armed with a magazine of interceptors to shoot down ICBMs. The crew module is on the left, the weapon module on the right.

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- Artists, show me your most popular piece - Hard sci-fi TIE Bomber

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—Artists, show me your most popular piece—

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Orion, the Hunter

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This is part of my project to reimagine the Star Wars ships as real 80s spacecraft, the 14F191 is based on the TIE Bomber. Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative was nicknamed the Star Wars program, so the basic idea behind this project is: what if SDI really WAS Star Wars?

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I promised myself I'd participate in #PortfolioDay this time.

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Apollo / Orion size comparison

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Boeing Apollo NextGen automated cargo vehicle --- an alternate present in which NASA continued to develop the original Apollo hardware.

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My favorite picture of her 🖤

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As a physicist, educator, and the first American woman in space, with grace and with grit, Sally Ride has inspired generations to reach for the stars. Happy heavenly birthday Dr. Ride.

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The New Discovery is a proposed Jupiter exploration vessel powered by a fission-fragment rocket engine. The New Discovery is a reusable spacecraft, making loops to the Jovian system and back with new crews and supplies.

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NASA planned to fly a manned Venus mission in the 70s as part of the Apollo Applications Program. Here, VTV Venture flies over Venus during its brief stay.

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VTV Venture soars over Venus after its four-month journey. Had NASA flown the manned Venus mission, the ship would be traveling so fast at this point that the astronauts would only have a few hours above Venus before they swung back around the planet and headed home.

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Advanced Apollo concepts. Some real, some not.

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Early story treatments for 2001: A Space Odyssey had a Discovery One with radiators visiting Saturn instead of Jupiter.

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The Lockheed XQS-1A is an alternate-80s experimental unmanned spaceplane based on the A-wing. Shrouded in secrecy, the USAF would use the XQS-1A for rapid-response interceptions of space targets if the Cold War ever went hot.

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The Soviet 14F191 anti-ICBM space station passes over Kazakhstan. The historical Strategic Defense Initiative was nicknamed the Star Wars program, so the basic idea behind this project is: what if SDI really was Star Wars? This is my TIE Bomber.

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Samsung Orbital Computation Cluster, mid-2100s. Light might be fast, but not infinitely so. The OCC is an orbiting supercomputer, providing a direct, low latency space-to-space link to any orbital facility that needs more computer power than they have onboard.

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Among the many proposals for the Apollo Applications Program were a myriad of foldable large-scale structures that could be deployed by the Apollo CSM. This one is an X-ray telescope.

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Here's the next ship in my ongoing project to re-imagine the ships from Star Wars as real 80s spacecraft - Reagan's Star Wars in an alternate history - the ESA Rapière, based on the B-wing. It's an orbital rail gun built by the French, Germans, and Italians.

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The Martin Marietta OBS-4, a nuclear weapon space station based on the Y-wing, part of my ongoing project to reimagine Star Wars spaceships as realistic 80s militarized spacecraft. The crew module is on the left, the weapons module forward, and the power module on the right.

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Star Wars ships reimagined as 80s-era spacecraft --- the Strategic Defense Initiative in an alternate past. #MayThe4th

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Space construction, 2100s. Two construction ships and their networked worker drones build the Koshiba, an orbital neutrino detector.

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NASA's unflown Venus manned flyby program would have had three phases. In the first, a standard Block II Apollo module would be used. The crew would perform a transposition and docking maneuver with the Venus ship, which was based on the S-IVB stage.

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My renders of some NASA manned Jupiter exploration concepts: HOPE-MPD and FFRE New Discovery

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The Apollo Applications Program put forward a number of space structures and experiments using Apollo hardware. One concept proposed building a foldable X-ray telescope, loading it into a Saturn IB, and deploying it with an Apollo CSM.

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The Convair Space Cruiser was a 70s-80s DARPA project to develop a manned, armed space capsule to be launched from a ballistic submarine on top of a Poseidon missile. It's one of the most unhinged spacecraft proposals I've seen.

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Mengzhou - China's next generation lunar-capable spacecraft.

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New Discovery is a proposed Jupiter exploration vessel powered by a fission-fragment rocket engine. The ship would make loops to the Jovian system and back, picking up new crews and supplies when it returns to Earth. The crew would live in an inflatable TransHab at the front.

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The Soviet 14F191 station rotates a solar panel 90 degrees and launches anti-ICBM interceptors. Based on the TIE Bomber, this is part of my ongoing project to reimagine Star Wars spaceships as realistic 80s spacecraft, a sort of alternate history Strategic Defense Initiative.

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The ESA Rapière, an orbital rail gun built by the French, Germans, and Italians. It's part of my ongoing project to re-imagine the ships from Star Wars as real 80s spacecraft - Reagan's Star Wars in an alternate history. This one's based on the B-wing.

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Soyuz 7K-VI Zvezda, a 60s proposal for a militarized Soyuz. The 7K-VI differed in many ways from the baseline Soyuz --- the descent module was at the top, it used radioisotope thermoelectric generators instead of solar panels, and carried recon equipment as well as a cannon.

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The production crew for 2001: A Space Odyssey went through many iterations of the Discovery One. This design had large radiators that made it look like a dragonfly. While the design wasn't used for the movie, it is used in Arthur C. Clarke's novelization.

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Lagrange Communication Relay Station L4-2 on station in the 2100s.

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New Discovery returns from Earth after a loop to Jupiter and back --- dirtied, but no worse for wear. Before heading back out to Jupiter on its cycle the New Discovery picks up supplies and trades out crew.

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In 1989 Sheila G. Bailey, Francis P. Chiaramontet, and Kenneth J. Davidian at @NASAglenn proposed the Variable Gravity Research Facility "Newton." This space station would consist of a long truss with two spent Energia boosters at one end and a set of crew modules at the other.

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The Soviet science magazine Technology for the Youth featured an article about photon rockets in issue 7, 1957. This is a rocket where the trust comes from photon momentum. I've rendered it flying over Jupiter.

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HOPE-MPD moves to dock with a supply ship in Jovian orbit. The HOPE mission architecture relies on cargo ships launched beforehand to Jupiter to provide the manned spacecraft with supplies at its destination.

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Human Outer Planet Exploration - Magnetoplasmadynamic (HOPE-MPD), a NASA concept for a manned mission to Jupiter's moon Callisto launching in 2045.

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UN Orbital Algae Farm - Late 2100s. Algae based orbital farms are a straightforward way to produce food in space.

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The 14F81 IS-E (Satellite Fighter - Emitter) is an alternate history 80s Soviet combat satellite based on the TIE Interceptor. Deployed in a constellation, each IS-E is equipped with a laser.

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Human Outer Planet Exploration - Magnetoplasmadynamic (HOPE-MPD), a NASA concept for a manned mission to Jupiter's moon Callisto launching in 2045.

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The Priyut is an alternate history 80s Soviet automated recovery craft. Here it docks with a damaged Soyuz, giving the cosmonauts a shelter while ground control figures out the safest way to get them home.

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An OS/I-65B Aktorione reloads with the help of its two manipulator arms. This is part of my ongoing project to re-imagine the ships from Star Wars as real 80s spacecraft --- Reagan's Star Wars in an alternate history. The OS/I-65B is based on the X-wing.

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New Discovery --- a NASA proposal for a manned Jovian cycler powered by a nuclear engine --- meets an automated supply ship in Jupiter orbit.

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Apollo CSM-118 approaching Skylab

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The Soyuz 7K-VI, a unbuilt militarized Soyuz variant from the 60s. It would have used radioisotope thermoelectric generators for power and an R-23 cannon for weaponry. The ship would have also come with a suite of recon equipment.

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My takes on some unbuilt spaceships from concept art for 2001: A Space Odyssey: an earlier version of Discovery, two satellite designs.

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The Martin Marietta OBS-4, an alternate history 80s spacecraft based on the Y-wing. The USAF's OBS-4 is the world's first nuclear weapon platform in space, carrying sixteen warheads plus four Brilliant Pebble interceptors on its center module.

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Ixian Weather Control Station over Arrakis in the time of the God Emperor of Dune.

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Some favorites of 2023: Soyuz 7K - LSK, Lagrange Communication Relay L4-2 (mid-2100s), Ixian Weather Control Satellite from the era of the God Emperor of Dune, Soyuz 7K - VI Zvezda

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An OS/I-65 Aktorione hangs in space. In 1984 Ronald Reagan started the Strategic Defense Initiative, a plan to deploy new space-based weapons. Critics called it "Star Wars," so I've been creating hypothetical spacecraft from the 1984 project based on the Star Wars ships.

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Inertsiya-1 is my design for a mid-90s wet-lab space station based on the Energia rocket. The nose cone would jettison revealing a docking apparatus and the solar panels would be stored under a side-mounted fairing.

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In 1971 North American Rockwell proposed modifying the Apollo spacecraft into a space shuttle. In this design the Service Module becomes a payload bay and the RCS thrusters moved aft. A pair of expanding wings would have been built into the underside for a gliding landing.

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Apollo Soyuz Test Project - 2, my concept for a hypothetical joint Soviet - US mission to rendezvous and dock in lunar orbit using an upgraded Apollo and a lunar-capable Soyuz. It would be a follow up to the real-world ASTP mission and launch sometime in the late 70s.

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The Priyut, a demilitarized rescue version of my 14F191 Soviet combat space station (which is based on the TIE Bomber.) The Priyut is designed for rapid launches to provide a safe haven for stranded space farers while ground control figures out a way to bring them home.

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The Soviet 14F191 combat space station is an 80s two-module station armed with a magazine of interceptors to shoot down ICBMs. The crew module is on the left, the weapon module on the right.

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The Soyuz 7K-VI on orbit. This was a 60s Soviet project to build a militarized Soyuz variant armed with a cannon and with the solar panels swapped out for nuclear generators.

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Real Star Wars - Soviet side. These are my alternate history 80s ships based on the spacecraft from Star Wars. When the United States started the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983 it was quickly nicknamed the Star Wars program due to its reliance on...

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NASA's unflown Apollo Applications Program project to send a manned mission to Venus. The project had three phases, with Phase C being the "Venus or bust" launch. It never got a name, but I'm calling this Venus Transfer Vehicle Venture, and the mission Adonis III.

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The Soyuz 7K-VI Zvezda. This was a 1960s proposal for a militarized Soyuz spacecraft, something to compete with the USAF's MOL concept in an alternate history space war.

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Variable Gravity Research Station "Newton," a 1989 proposal for a spinning space station that could simulate the gravitational fields of Mars and the Moon to train astronauts and test equipment for future manned missions.

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In 1989 Sheila G. Bailey, Francis P. Chiaramontet, and Kenneth J. Davidian at @NASAglenn proposed the Variable Gravity Research Facility "Newton." This space station would consist of a long truss with two spent Energia boosters at one end and a set of crew modules at the other.

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The 14F81 IS-E is an alternate history Soviet military satellite based on the TIE Interceptor. IS-Es (Satellite Fighter - Emitter) would work as a constellation. Each constellation element carries a small laser that's not powerful enough to outright destroy a target on its own.

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My most popular was probably one of these, not sure which: Apollo Applications Program manned Venus mission over the planet - Convair Space Cruiser Poseidon-launched manned interceptor - ESA Rapière rail gun based on the B-wing - Phase A of the AAP Venus mission in Earth orbit

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A spent Energia rocket starts to deorbit.

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The concept designers for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey went through many iterations of the Discovery One design during production . Here's my render of one of them.

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Moscow-class, from Peter F. Hamilton's Judas Unchained: "The London was a hundred fifty meters long, its rust-red hull a double sphere, with the forward globe smaller than the rear, and seven rapier-blade thermal radiators protruding from its waist...

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QRT with your white art.

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QRT with your white art. Cool pieces @RuiHuang_art

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VTV Venture, on hypothetical Apollo Application mission Adonis III, basks in the sun over Venus.

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NASA planned to fly a manned Venus mission in the 70s as part of the Apollo Applications Program. Here, VTV Venture flies over Venus during its brief stay.

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NASA planned to fly a manned mission to Venus using Apollo hardware. Phase C would have been the big flight, had the mission flown. Here, Venus Transfer Vehicle Venture (Adonis III) prepares to light up its engine and launch off to Venus.

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Neat, it's #PortfolioDay

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Made with Blender.

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Follow up to yesterday's post - DARPA also proposed that the Space Cruiser could be used for scientific missions, so here's a peaceful version, the RRC (Rapid Research Capsule.) Launched from a B-52 or a 747, the RRC is perfect for when you need data quickly and at low-cost.

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Alt-90s Skylab --- an Apollo NextGen (an evolution of the 60s Apollo CSM) docked with an Inertsiya (a wet-lab space station built from an Energia rocket)

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Crepuscular Apollo

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The Apollo Applications Program explored missions that would reuse Apollo hardware. Skylab and the Apollo Soyuz Test Project were the result. An un-flown concept was a manned Venus flyby spacecraft, which I have rendered here.

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Orion in lunar orbit.

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The Chinese JF-22 wind tunnel recently did tests on a two-stage-to-orbit concept for air launching a small shuttle. Here's my take on the concept, the Feilong-1 commercial space shuttle, a collaboration between the CNSA and Air China.

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The Martin Marietta OBS-4 in orbital twilight.

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The Martin Marietta OBS-4, a nuclear weapon space station based on the Y-wing, part of my ongoing project to reimagine Star Wars spaceships as realistic 80s militarized spacecraft. The crew module is on the left, the weapons module forward, and the power module on the right.

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Ships of ASTP-2 (pt. 1) - Apollo-II trains in Earth orbit with a docking mechanism. Apollo Soyuz Test Project-2 is a hypothetical joint Soviet - US circumlunar mission. The docking mechanism will be used when the two ships rendezvous in lunar orbit.

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Renders of Phase A and B of NASA's un-flown Apollo Applications Program manned Venus mission. Phase A and B would have tested the hardware in Earth orbit in preparation for the actual mission in Phase C.

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The Chinese Academy of Sciences recently tested a spaceplane configuration at the JF22 hypersonic wind tunnel. Here's my takes on the design. 1) Feilong-1 passenger services 2) Ad for the Feilong-1 3) Feilong-2 satellite deployer 4) Feilong-3 space station logistics craft

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The Chinese spaceplane Feilong-2 deploys a set of CubeSats. My own design for a near-future CNSA spaceplane, based on a two-stage-to-orbit configuration tested at the JF-22 hypersonic wind tunnel.

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NASA planned to reuse Apollo hardware to conduct a manned flyby of Venus in the mid-70s. Phase B of this plan would have been a test of the hardware in a 25,000 mile orbit. In my rendering the Adonis II mission flies over Utah preparing to light up the engine on VTV Aphrodite.

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Apollo Soyuz Test Project - 2, a hypothetical joint Soviet - US circumlunar mission using the docking procedures developed during the first ASTP. This is my own extrapolation of Soyuz and Apollo hardware.

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A Boeing Apollo NextGen license-built by JAXA makes an automated supply flight --- an alternate present in which NASA continued to develop the original Apollo hardware.

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Engineers of the 60s proposed converting the Mercury capsule into a work pod with manipulator arms. Here, one performs maintenance on a TIROS satellite.

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Project West Ford was a 1961-1963 US military project to release 480 million copper needles into space to create an artificial ionosphere. Here's a render I made of a launch + two pictures I took of the antennas involved in the experiment.

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The full stack of Apollo Soyuz Test Project - 2, my hypothetical joint US - Soviet mission to dock and orbit around the moon.

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Apollo Soyuz Test Project-2 is my hypothetical joint Soviet-US circumlunar flight and docking mission. The Soyuz 7K-LSK and Apollo-II face each other during final preparations for docking.

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The Pegasus is a lesser-known spacecraft from the Apollo program. Launched three times on Saturn I rockets, the Pegasus investigated the micrometeoroid environment, providing data that would help mission planners protect the Apollo capsules during their flight.

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Two Mercury work pods kitted out for rescue operations streak towards a stranded vessel.

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Some historical satellites and probes: International Cometary Explorer (1978), Telstar-1 (1962), Solwind (1979), Echo 1 (1960)

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VTV Venture soars over Venus after its four-month journey. Had NASA flown the manned Venus mission, the ship would be traveling so fast at this point that the astronauts would only have a few hours above Venus before they swung back around the planet and headed home.

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Project Mercury advanced missions: 1) MORAD, a concept to practice rendezvous and docking procedures with a Scout upper stage. 2) My interpretation of a concept I found for a Mercury work pod. 3) MORAD recolored.

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NOAA spaceflight, early 2100s: Wexler Research Station

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USAF-230, an up-gunned Brilliant Pebble based on the X-wing. The satellite has four interceptors, as opposed to the standard Pebble with one. They would be used to intercept ICBMs and other targets. The satellite core includes more tracking equipment than the standard Pebble.

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Spaceship concepts for the Dune sequel books: Ixian Weather Control Station (GEoD), Ixian Monitor Orbital Surveillance Station (HoD), Teg's No Ship over Rakis (HoD), Traditional No Ship (HoD / C:D)

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After hanging out with #NASASocial I knew I needed to do some GOES-U renders. Here she is, NOAA's newest weather satellite.

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Soyuz 7K-VI Zvezda test fires its cannon.

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Artemis outbound. Plus a thread about why the material on the crew module is incorrect, courtesy of my time hanging out with @NASASocial

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Phase A of the un-flown AAP manned Venus mission would have been a test run of the ship in Earth orbit using a standard Block II CSM. The transfer vehicle was based on the S-IVB. Here, the VTV (Venus Transfer Vehicle) Armstrong waits for the sun to rise on the Adonis I mission.

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The Priyut rescue vessel, a spacecraft that provides a safe haven for stranded astronauts and cosmonauts while ground control figures out how to get them home. The two rings of lights illuminate the docking port to help determine orientation in dark conditions.

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The Priyut is automated, but I gave it a lighting pattern to easily distinguish the orientation of the ship even in darkness, just in case manual docking is necessary. I'll post another picture later this week showing the docking port and its lighting arrangement.

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The Soyuz 7K-VI was an unbuilt Soviet project to militarize the Soyuz spacecraft by adding a cannon, recon equipment, and nuclear generators. Here, I've rendered my model of the design conducting a test firing.

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One of the scientific devices on Mercury mission MA-7 (Scott Carpenter flying) was a balloon deployed from the front of the capsule. The balloon was intended to measure atmospheric drag and test the visibility of different paints. Unfortunately, the balloon didn't inflate.

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Armstrong: We're about to open our hatch now. Collins: There's that same guy that, when you open up the door, why, he's waiting there for you, and he turns the lights on. Duke: How about that. Just like the refrigerator. Unidentified crewmember: [garble]-VEZAAAA CRISTAAAALL!

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