Man in space needs vehicles and vehicles have to be stored somewhere. Artist Ed Valigursky captured this brilliantly as you can see in the above detail showing the SpaceX MEV2 rolling out.
The illustrators over at Century 21 used the same idea in the Project SWORD Manual, except this time they've swapped the MEV2 for their own Scramble Bug.
A variation on this theme came in TV21 when in this Saturn Probe illustration we see a SpaceX MEV2-like vehicle descending from a, well, a MEV from Zero-X more or less!
Of course if you haven't got a ramp to roll down then things get tougher. These fellows have got it sorted with cables and pulleys making light work of lowering a, well another Zero-X MEV more or less!
Do you know of any more MEV's or MEV2;s being rolled, lowered or generally moved around readers?
Thats always a source of annoyance for me, brought up on a diet of mevs, molabs and beetles, come the actual moonlanding all we got was an electric go-kart folded up like a pram on a bus.
ReplyDeleteThe Saturn lander is my favorite. Great article!
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