X-20 on Launch Pad by Michael_C
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This image was inspired by artwork showing a dark X-20/Titan 3 on the launch pad with growing dawn light. My image possibly more realistic with the booster brightly lit. I worked at the space center during the Apollo program and recall seeing the brightly lit Saturn V on the launch pad very early in the morning, not unlike this image.
The Z-20 is from the Marketplace, the X-20 Titan-3C Booster from Free Stuff. The launch pad and tower are a Mobile Launcher OBJ from NASA (a close look will show the scale isn't right). The dawn sky is one of Flink's sunsets.
Comments (2)
MagikUnicorn Online Now!
Gorgeous
LeeMoon
Excellent render and models! I also worked at KSC in the Launch Control Center, but during the beginning of the Space Shuttle era. Loved working there. My parents would drive us down to Titusville to watch as many early launches as we could. I also built and launched model rockets in my early teens. My favorites were lifting body designs. Your Dyna-Soar model is awesome. Thanks for showing it off in this render!
Lee
Michael_C
Thanks Lee. One of the great things about working at the Cape was how many launches I got to see. If memory serves, I watched a Titan-3 launch from the Pad 39-A. Nothing matched a Saturn V launch though, even from three miles away. I got to see and feel two Saturn V launches, including Apollo 8, outside from the area in front of the press site. For later Apollo launches my very minor job had me in the back of the secondary firing room in the LCC. I did get a glimpse of at least one of those launches between the racks of strip chart recorders.