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Moonship Touchdown
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 Title:
Moonship Touchdown

Catalog Number:
SF-086

Original:
Digital

Print:
8.5 x 11 & 13 x 19 Limited Edition Prints Available

Print w/Frame:
Custom Order

Created:
1999

Updated:
2006

Caption:
The final ten minutes are especially tense. The tape-guided automatic pilots are now in full control. We fall more and more slowly, floating over the landing area like descending helicopters. As we approach, the fifth leg of our landing gear-a big telescopic shock absorber which has been housed in the center of the rocket assembly-is lowered through the fiery blast of the motors. The long flames begin to splash against the baked lunar surface. Swirling clouds of brown-gray dust are thrown out sideways; they settle immediately, instead of hanging in air, as they would on the earth.

The original art is computer generated in 1999. The moonship is created and rendered with Ray Dream Studio, the moon surface is created with Bryce 3D, and the background stars and the moon shader map are made with Photoshop 5.0.
 

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