Sujet

Artist's Conception of Space Station Freedom, 1991. Creator: Alan Chinchar.

Légende

Artist's Conception of Space Station Freedom, 1991. Alan Chinchar's rendition of the Space Station Freedom in orbit. The painting depicts the completed space station. Earth is used as the image's backdrop with the Moon and Mars off in the distance. Freedom was to be a permanently crewed orbiting base to be completed in the mid 1990s. It was to have a crew of 4. Freedom was an attempt at international cooperation that attempted to incorporate the technological and economic assistance, of the United States, Canada, Japan, and nine European nations. The image shows four pressurized modules (three laboratories and a habitat module) and six large solar arrays which were expected to generate 56,000 watts of electricity for both scientific experiments and the daily operation of the station. Space Station Freedom never came to fruition. Instead, in 1993, the original partners, as well as Russia, pooled their resources to create the International Space Station.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Space

Notre référence

HRM21B20_189

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

44,3Mo (1,5Mo) / 38,1cm x 29,1cm / 4500 x 3438 (300dpi)

Mots clés

politics country space planet exploration science research Earth solar system astronomy color moon lunar political artificial location century gravity international relations concept futuristic space exploration space travel NASA Mars United States of America Nineties Colour prototype red planet space station 20th century American America USA 1990s decade united states artist's impression National Aeronautics and Space Administration Heritage Space NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Station Freedom Alan Chinchar Chinchar Alan