Feb 052010
An undated bit of Boeing promo art, this shows a scene obviously cribbed from the von Braun Colliers and Disney art of the 1950’s. Coupled with a few related pieces, the “quaint” vision of the space suit, vehicle and other aspects leads me to think that this cannot date from any later than 1962, and probably several years earlier. The designs shown here cannot be assumed to be based on actual engineering studies, just pure Art Department.
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Those crescent wrenches should be fun to try and use in zero g.
Space is the only place where signaling to make a left turn with your arm will change your center of mass enough under rocket thrust to actually make you turn left.
The rocket looks like an old Estes Model Rocket kit called
the “Bug”
Quest HL-20 lifting body?:
http://www.rocketreviews.com/reviews/all/oop_qst_hl20.shtml
What the poor guys on the exterior of the spacecraft don’t realize is the exhaust from that backpack rocket engine is still going to be moving at full exit velocity from the nozzle when it reaches them, which probably won’t do much good for the clarity of their space helmets and may give them some nifty suit contamination problems when they return to the interior of the ship.
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