NASA Marshall SFC Post Apollo Vehicles

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I've bounced these around a few areas till now, but I decided I was going to take it seriously. It may be that this leads to another animation project - no promises.

We start off with a Marshall Space Flight Center vision of what cislunar space should look like after the Apollo program. Needless to say, this never flew, but it has some tantalising and visually intriguing spacecraft designs. I mean, how can you not fall in love with a giant metal robot crab as a space tug?

At the moment I'm making the space tug. I have plans to do some other models, and there may be some animations, we shall see!

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Some other vehicles and contemporary space art.

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Got a bit more done. Finished the engine bay and did a cargo/logistics module to go on top.

I've not started texturing yet, but I couldn't help putting this little scene together to see what it would look like.