Mack Crawford

[Updated pinned/intro post] I'm Mack Crawford, a 3d artist bringing the past, present, and future of spaceflight to life. I hope my work inspires someone out there

This is one of the two solar array wings of the Rockwell International space solar power satellite. The International Space Station is shown for scale (you may have to zoom in to see it)

Crew Dragon transfers passengers to a Cygnus-derived transit habitat on Cislunar Transporter, to be delivered to a waiting lander in lunar orbit

Been trying to find the post all morning, but wasn't there someone at Starbase just a few weeks ago complaining specifically about COPVs being mishandled by untrained workers?

The "Mission-B" Cygnus, for use on the remaining CRS2 Cygnus flights. Mostly differentiated visually by a 4th PCM segment, but there are lots of subsystem changes as well to support longer-duration flights, reduce cost, and support more complex applications beyond simple cargo

SpaceX fans: "'Assured access' is just pork, why should we pay ULA/Boeing/Blue/RL/... when SpaceX has a better product?" SpaceX: *shuts down American human spaceflight because of a temper tantrum*

For an early crewed lunar flyby, a follow-on to Gemini-Agena was proposed where a modified Gemini would dock to a pair of Transtages, which would boost it to TLI

Blue Moon Mk2 being maneuvered and refueled by the Cislunar Transporter

The annoying thing about spacecraft with sunshades is, during most of the mission you can't see much of anything because the interesting parts are all dark