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		Launch Site At Midnight [94/144] Title: Launch Site at Midnight Catalog Number: SF-071 Original: Digital Print: 8.5 x 11 & 13 x 19 Limited Edition Prints Available Print w/Frame: Custom Order Updated: 2007 Caption: The three-stage passenger rocket, sitting on a movable platform. The 265-foot spaceship is a monster rocket - as tall as a twenty-four-story building. It is 65 feet in diameter at its base. The fat, bottle-shaped rocket weights 7,000 tons, as much as a light naval cruiser and more then twice the weight of the Apollo program's Saturn V rocket. It develops 14,000 pounds of thrust from 51 hydrazine and nitroc acid powered engines. The second stage's thirty four engines produce a combined thrust of 1,750 tons. The top, winged stage has five engines with a total thrust of 270 tons and would return from orbit like a glider. A fleet of twelve ferries are in operation day and night during the space station construction each with a crew of ten and payload of thirty-six tons. At the height of the work there will be as many as one launch every 4 hours! All stages are recoverable and are reassembled later in a vertical assembly building, from which the rocket would be wheeled on a giant crawler to its launch site. Check out the cool Sci-Fi QTVR of the Launch Site This computer graphic space ship modeled is dedicated to rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun and the science fiction artist Chesley Bonestell and their ideas of space travel which inspired many children of the 50's generation to reach for the moon, planets and the distant stars high above the blue horizon. The artwork was created using Strata StudioPro Bitz and Photoshop.