Gallery of Daedalus & Icarus |
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I have always been interested in plans for interstellar travel, and have been a member of the BIS since 1952, so of course followed their Daedalus design study closely. In a way I suppose this could be compared with their earlier 1939 study for a moonship, using banks of solid fuel in stages. This is not the way it happened, yet Apollo did have several features foretold by this, and of course the Shuttle uses solid boosters. So perhaps history will repeat itself one day! The painting itself was done in the 1980s, I think for a Marshall Cavendish book, but at that time I painted the explosion a reddish colour. Later I was able to change this digitally on a scan in Photoshop, and I also changed the planet, which was originally Neptune. David A. Hardy |
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The blueprint and airbrush illustration were both prepared for the COSMOS miniseries based on orthographic drawings supplied by the BIS. Rick Sternbach |
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The blueprint and airbrush illustration were both prepared for the COSMOS miniseries based on orthographic drawings supplied by the BIS. Rick Sternbach |
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A visual comparison demonstrating the size of the Daedalus spacecraft. Team Icarus |
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Daedalus Nuclear Fusion Starship Daedalus Stage Separation The context (of this illustration) is that when I was studying at the Art Center College of Design I wanted to step outside of my major of commercial illustration to storyboard "Earth's first mission to the stars". I was able to talk one of the transportation design instructors into letting me take his vehicle design class as an elective and focus on "Project Daedalus". These blueprints were part of that project. |
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Joe Bergeron (permission pending) |
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From the book "The Third Millenial", by Langford and Stablefords (1985). (permission pending) The artist of this image is likely to be unknown, but the image is yet another fascinating illustration of the size of the Daedalus compared. |
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Daedalus Staging - starship designed by the British Interplanetary Society stages in deep space. Acrylic, 1980. copyright by Don Dixon / cosmographica.com |
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Unknown artist. Image found on ebay sale. |
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An occlusion render in orthographic projection of the current state of my Daedalus project. Nick Stevens |
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Render of the Daedalus, with small cubic warden - the wardne is aboout 1.6 metres on a side. Nick Stevens |
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Work continues on Stage 2 of my BIS Daedalus starship. The details around the top are the bays for the 18 probes that the ship will carry. Nick Stevens |
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And a view from lower down. I'm experimenting with violet instead of green for the tank banding. There was quite a bit of work when i found out that the second stage should only have 4 tanks. Nick Stevens |
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Shigemi Numazawa (permission pending) |
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(Permission Pending) |
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Courtesy and Copyright Adrian Mann |
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Courtesy and Copyright Adrian Mann. |
Astronomical Resources
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British Interplanetary Society |
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astroEngine |
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Tau Zero Foundation |
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Centauri Dreams |
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icarus |