Selden's Bonestell & von Braun page
In 1947, Wernher von Braun wrote a book titled "Das Mars Projekt."
An English edition, "The Mars Project," was published in 1953 and
a reprint is readily available.
In 1952 Colliers Magazine hosted a symposium on space
flight, the results of which were published in their magazine.
Spacecraft were designed by Wernher von Braun
and illustrated by
Chesley Bonestell and others.
These spacecraft designs also were published in several books,
some of which were
"Across the Space Frontier,"
"The Conquest of Space,"
"The Conquest of the Moon," and
"The Exploration of Mars."
Physical dimensions for many of these designs were published in
the book "Spaceship Handbook" by Jack Hagerty and Jon C. Rogers.
Below are pictures of my interpretations of some of these spacecraft.
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"Man Conquers Space" Web site is gone.
- The "Across to Mars" Addon for Celestia is now available
from the Celestia Motherlode at
https://www.celestiamotherlode.net/creators/selden/acrosstomars_v1.zip
The Zip file is about 9MB and expands to about 21MB.
Note: this Addon was published in spring of 2006 for use with Celestia
v1.4. Some of its features, Cel://URLs in particular, do not work well
with later versions of Celestia.
Spoiler warning: screengrabs showing the results of most of the
Cel::/URLs provided in the Addon can be seen at
04.html.
The following books were used as reference material.
All but the first and last are currently out of print.
- von Braun, W., The Mars Project, Illini Books Press, University of
Illinois Press, USA, 1991
- Ley, W., The Conquest of Space, Viking, New York,1949
- von Braun, W., et al., Across the Space Frontier, Viking, New York,
1952
- von Braun, W. et al., The Conquest of the Moon, Viking, New York, 1953
- Ley, W., von Braun, W., The Exploration of Mars, Viking, New York, 1960
- Miller, R., Durant, F. C. III, The Art of Chesley Bonestell, Donning, Norfolk, 1983
- Hagerty,J., Rogers, J.,Spaceship Handbook, ARA Press, 2001
Celestia displaying models that I'm currently working on.
A second addon in the works.
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