Mars and Beyond by RobertJ

Bryce • Science Fiction • posted on Nov 12, 2007

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And this is how we imagined how we would explore mars some sixty years ago. The umbrella ships entering orbit around Mars. The Umbrella ships have been made from scratch and a very small picture has been used as reference to model them. And I took a look at some covers from populair scifi magazines from that time and made my own out of it to keep it al in the spirit of those days when it would only be a matter of when do we go to mars. Edit: Before people think, how can this be a Bryce render, i did some massive postwork with GIMP (that program is new to me, and is a nice alternative to Photoshop, still i have to unlearn some things from Photoshop wich are just working in a different way when using GIMP).

Comments (6)

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alexclark

4:14AM | Mon, 12 November 2007

Great retro work! The GIMP is an excellent tool to have.

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TheBear005

6:57AM | Mon, 12 November 2007

Nice work! Very convincing.

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Bambam131

3:21PM | Wed, 14 November 2007

Very nice image you got there Robert..........Wernher von Braun would be proud!

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RobertJ

3:38PM | Wed, 14 November 2007

But, but... Schulinger did design these spacecraft with an nuclear powered ion-engine. Werner von Braun wanted to go there with a chemical propulsion (powerfull but a terrible fuel economy, a bit like a SUV). The major difference between those plans was that the Schulinger design only required a mass per crew of 33 metric tons whereas the von Braun plan required 532 metric tons per crewmember. Both would have use the von Braun Cargo rocket (now there is an idea for the next model) wich could lift about 14 ton into low earth orbit. The von Braun planning required a staggering 950 launches to get his ships assembled in space whereas the Schulinger plan only required 50 launches (still a lot though, the space shuttle at the moment could do with 6 or 7 launches each year if they really stretch it there at NASA HQ).

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