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Title:
Atomic Electric Spaceship (low view)

Catalog Number:
SF-075B

Original:
Digital

Caption:
n 1957 Ernst Stuhlinger proposes a manned mission to Mars using electrically propelled space craft. This scheme inspires the "Mars and Beyond" segment of the Disneyland "Man in Space" series of television programs.

The payload of each umbrella-shaped ship is to be 150 tons and its electrical engine will produce a total thrust of 110 pounds. The pay load consists of the crew of twenty, life support, instruments, and a landing craft. Click here to continue.

Above text from page 380 of The Dream Machines by Ron Miller, copyright 1993 by Krieger Publishing Company

The 1957 Mars Spaceships are re-created using Strata Studio Blitz 3d computer graphic program. The stars in the scene are made with Photoshop 3.0. and imported into into Strata as a backdrop.
 

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