Hypothetical Lunar Lander by Nick Porcino (c) 2000
The
original concept sketch
modeled and rendered in Animation Master
This is a lunar lander designed for a "what-if" scenario. How might a joint US-USSR lunar landing mission of the 1960's might have turned out if the cold war had ended decades before it really did? This concept combines reliable and sturdy Soviet life support technologies and pressure hulls with US high technology; the lower stage is a combination of Surveyor and Apollo design cues, and the upper stage is a combination of Apollo and Voskhod. It would be nice to have a couple of astronauts or cosmonauts to stick in the scene...
Click here to download the starfield procedural used in the image. To use it you'll need ToonNation's procedural called CellTurb. The original starfield texture was created by Sot. Gougousis.