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		Luna 1 [40/123] Title: Luna 1 Catalog Number: SF-091 Created: 2000 Caption: The spaceship Luna, designed by art director Ernst Fegte for the Classic Science Fiction movie "Destination Moon", is 150 feet tall with a loaded weight of 250 tons. Of this, 200 tons is fuel, 40 tons is the spaceship itself, and 10 tons for the four passengers, their accommodations, equipment, supplies, etc. Bearing a marked resemblance to the German V2, the ship was designed to take off and land vertically, propelled by ordinary water heated to plasma state by an atomic reactor. The spaceship Luna is a sleek streamlined beauty, without the mass and ungainliness predicated by multi-stage chemical rockets. In the dawning of the nuclear age, it seemed natural to expect a nice compact nuclear rocket propulsion system to be just around the corner. The technical details of the orbital dynamics, space walks, landing site, etc. are remarkably accurate by today's standards. We're still waiting for the propulsion breakthrough that makes this type of ship possible. The 1950 Rocketship Luna was re-created using Strata Studio 2.5.3 computer graphic program. The stars in the scene are made with Photoshop 5.0. and imported into into Strata as a backdrop. Created by Edward Rowles in 2000