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Fuel Tank Separation
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Title:
Fuel Tank Separation

Catalog Number:
SF-053

Original:
Digital

Created:
1997

Caption:
Thirty-three minutes from take-off the moonships have achieved escape velocity. The motors are cut off and the large empty spherical fuel tanks jettisoned. For awhile the tanks drift alongside us; soon they float out of sight. Eventually they will crash on the moon. As the moonships now coast silently through the depths of space, momentum and the force of gravity invisibly guide the ships toward their destination....the moon.

The original art is computer generated. The three moonships are created and rendered with Ray Dream Designer 4.1, the star background and smoke are made with Photoshop 3.0. The earth was provided by NASA
 

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