Spacecraft artwork not from 54 years ago
There's an artist's conception of a spacecraft in the article captioned "How they thought we'd be doing it, 54 years ago" and "concept dated 1960 of a nuclear-thermal ship in orbit above Mars". There are several clues that the image was not created in 1960. First, the craters in Mars in the artwork and especially the water-sculpted features strongly resemble some of the more captivating images from the Viking missions in the late 1970s. Second, the solar array on this artist's conception is nearly identical in design to one of the arrays now functioning on the International Space Station. Most likely, rather than being from 1960, this artist's conception is from 1990 or later. Artists' fantasies of Mars exploration in 1960 were much more impressive and usually aerodynamic, like this one: https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2899/14247261164_e5e2223985.jpg
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