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Martin Space Art
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In the late 50’s/early 60’s, the major aerospace companies in the US cranked out volumes of speculative and sometimes jsut plain nutty artwork showing what our future in space was going to look like. The Martin Corporation was no exception. The Glenn L. Martin Aviation Museum has copies of a number of these pieces. It’s not known if the designs shown were based on detailed engineering studies, very preliminary engineering studies, notional engineering ideas, or just the artists imagination. A whole lot of the latter can probably be safely assumed, however.
This painting was done by N. Stanilla, and was featured on the August 1959 cover of “Space Age” magazine.
Another piece of fanciful Martin Aircraft art, this time showing the same vehicle as last time over the lunar surface.
Another bit of Martin Corp. aerospace artwork from the late 1950’s/very early 1960’s. This time showing aircraft (and perhaps spacecraft) with “saucer wings.” These have been described in secondary sources as being atomic or “photon” powered. Shrug. The canard equipped one, second from bottom, looks like it has a copy of the bridge of the Starship Enterprise dead center, with a glass ceiling… though it’s probably supposed to represent the powerplant (“atomic pile?” “Fusion reactor?” “Warp core?”).
Another bit of artistic awesomeness
This shows the same circular moon-landing monstrocity featured in the last episode, this time next to what must be meant to be some sort of nuclear powered deep-range explorer or some such. Note also the bulbous-nosed reentry spaceplane in the background; my guess is that the nose-bulb would be either ejected, or burned off, after re-entry, leaving an aerodynamically cleaner vehicle.
This is one of the more bizarre of the series, pretty much inexplicable without some sort of caption. Of which there wasn’t one. Clearly some sort of lunar lander. The “things” on the ends of the arms appear to have transparent bubbles and reflectors, so perhaps this was supposed to be a solar powered… something.
via up-ship.com
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