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Project Argosy Dress Rehersal

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Work-in-progress on the Argosy Interplanetary vehicle. This was Werner von Braun's refinement of a 1968 Boeing study. von Braun reduced the mass by a third, and redesigned the mission so the entire Argosy craft could be reinserted into low Earth Orbit after the mission, so it could be re-provisioned and reused. This scene takes place in cislunar space, as the vehicle is put through its paces in a shake-down flight to the moon. I'm nearly finished with texturing and surfacing, so I wanted to take her out for a spin.

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Cool. I love the light and shadow quality here, and it really feels like you dotted your I's and crossed your T's on material settings. I love the details... and of course the notion that "the torch has been passed to a new generation of solar conquistadors" ;) If we aren't going to aggressively push back the manned frontier for a while, I'm happy at least someone is.