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"MOONSHOT" ALLAN TODD, ARTIST.
20 July 2016, 13:00 EDT
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"MOONSHOT"
ALLAN TODD, ARTIST. 19 x 14 inch gouache on illustration board, framed and glazed to 24 x 19 inches. Signed lower right "Allan Todd." Manuscript notation to verso of illustration board reads: "Moonshot by Allen Todd, (Northrop Design Artist) to specs of Fred Spencely March 1958."
An attractive conceptual illustration of four astronauts on the lunar surface, two being in the background next to a direct ascent rocket, and two in the foreground conducting lunar surface experiments, with Earth fully visible in the starry sky. Executed more than a decade before a manned space craft landed on the moon, the direct ascent rocket depicted is one of the methods initially considered both by the United States for the Apollo moon landing, as well as by the Soviets. The US decided against it in favor of the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) method, as direct ascent would have required an enormous launch vehicle.
An attractive conceptual illustration of four astronauts on the lunar surface, two being in the background next to a direct ascent rocket, and two in the foreground conducting lunar surface experiments, with Earth fully visible in the starry sky. Executed more than a decade before a manned space craft landed on the moon, the direct ascent rocket depicted is one of the methods initially considered both by the United States for the Apollo moon landing, as well as by the Soviets. The US decided against it in favor of the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) method, as direct ascent would have required an enormous launch vehicle.

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