The umbrella fleet departs Earth by starbase1
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This shows Ernst Stuhlinger's ion powered 'Umbrella Ships' leaving Earth for Mars. This was a serious design - the ion engine is halfway down the handle, there's a nuclear reactor at the base of the handle, (safely away from the crew quarters centre and top), and the umbrella structure is a cooling system to shed all the waste heat.
Note also the yellow 'double headed' rocket, intended to descend to the surface of Mars, and fly back up again.
Modelled and rendered in Lightwave 3d
Comments (12)
shayhurs
Well done!
2121
superb creation
icerian
Fascinating scenery. Excellent done! 5+
mnmpm
very cool image, very realistic 5+
KnightWolverine
Impressive Space Scene!..
0rest4wicked
Superb!
SIGMAWORLD
Beautiful!
innerspiritfran
Fascinating! It begs to have a story behind it.
NefariousDrO
Nice modeling work, I remember reading about that concept. Wonderful render!
starbase1
Thanks to all for the great feedback - just to emphasize, this was a 100% serious design for a manned mission to Mars.
orbital
Love it. Be nice if you do an image to show the rockets departing for the martian surface.
retepk
Superb.