I can’t decide if this is genius, daft, or possibly both…
A design from Canada for the X-Prize, which is based on sticking a modern rocket engine into a V2 hull, stretched enough to fit a pilot in the top, for sub orbital flights.
Credible spacecraft
The current quickie project, the Canadian Arrow!
This was a seriously oddball design, basically take a World War 2 V2 rocket, and stick a modern engine in it.
You what?!?!
Another one of my short documentaries, this one is on Ernst Stuhlinger’s design for a nuclear powered manned vehicle for Mars.
And it tests my YouTube embedding!
I am currently working on various versions of the Orion Nuclear Pulse spacecraft – which worked by the insane but effective method of dropping nuclear bombs out the back and riding the blast forward and upwards…
Here’s a render with a US Space Shuttle for comparison
The Space Intruder Detector (SID), from UFO is now complete, and I am making some finished renders of it.
Let’s start with a render of it above Earth, and a set of ortho images.
When people first started making serious plans to get into space, it was seen as being rather like an antarctic expedition – there would be loads of equipment, and lots of men (always men) on the expedition, not the tiny numbers of astronauts that went when it actually happened.
One of the biggest sources of graphic inspiration for me is the work of Wernher von Braun and his team in popularising the feasibility of space exploration, most notably in the “Colliers” series of articles, and the “Man will conquer space soon!” documentaries. This is the ship he saw as possibly carrying out the first close up reconnaissance of the Moon.