GALLERY OF DAEDALUS & ICARUS
Daedalus by David Hardy
I have always been interested in plans for interstellar travel, and have been a member of the BIS since 1952, so of course followed their Daedalus design study closely. In a way I suppose this could be compared with their earlier 1939 study for a moonship, using banks of solid fuel in stages. This is not the way it happened, yet Apollo did have several features foretold by this, and of course the Shuttle uses solid boosters. So perhaps history will repeat itself one day! The painting itself was done in the 1980s, I think for a Marshall Cavendish book, but at that time I painted the explosion a reddish colour. Later I was able to change this digitally on a scan in Photoshop, and I also changed the planet, which was originally Neptune.
David A. Hardy
dave@astroart.org
http://www.astroart.org
Daedalus Airbrush by Rick Sternbach
The blueprint and airbrush illustration were both prepared for the COSMOS miniseries based on orthographic drawings supplied by the BIS.
Rick Sternbach
rick@spacemodelsystems.com
http://www.spacemodelsystems.com
Daedalus Blueprints by Rick Sternbach
The blueprint and airbrush illustration were both prepared for the COSMOS miniseries based on orthographic drawings supplied by the BIS.
Rick Sternbach
rick@spacemodelsystems.com
http://www.spacemodelsystems.com
Daedalus compared to a Saturn V rocket
A visual comparison demonstrating the size of the Daedalus spacecraft
Daedalus Blueprints by Nathan Fowkes
Daedalus Nuclear Fusion Starship
Daedalus Stage Separation
The context (of this illustration) is that when I was studying at the Art Center College of Design I wanted to step outside of my major of commercial illustration to storyboard “Earth’s first mission to the stars”. I was able to talk one of the transportation design instructors into letting me take his vehicle design class as an elective and focus on “Project Daedalus”. These blueprints were part of that project.
Daedalus Blueprints by Nathan Fowkes
nathandfowkes@yahoo.com
http://nathanfowkes.blogspot.com/2009/12/project-daedalus-1994.html
Stage Separation by Nathan Fowkes
Stage Separation by Nathan Fowkes
nathandfowkes@yahoo.com
http://nathanfowkes.blogspot.com/2009/12/project-daedalus-1994.html
Daedalus by Joe Bergeron
Joe Bergeron (permission pending)
joe@joebergeron.com
http://homepage.mac.com/joebergeron/spaceart.html
Daedalus Size Comparison
From the book “The Third Millenial”, by Langford and Stablefords (1985). (permission pending)
The artist of this image is likely to be unknown, but the image is yet another fascinating illustration of the size of the Daedalus compared.
The Third Millennium
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http://www.ansible.co.uk/books/3mill.html
Daedalus by Don Dixon
Daedalus Staging – starship designed by the British Interplanetary Society stages in deep space. Acrylic, 1980.
copyright by Don Dixon
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http://cosmographica.com/gallery/portfolio3/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=0
Daedalus with Warden by Nick Stevens
Render of the Daedalus, with small cubic warden – the wardne is aboout 1.6 metres on a side.
Nick Stevens
feedback2@starbase1.co.uk
http://www.starbase1.co.uk/
Daedalus Stage 2 by Nick Stevens
Daedalus Stage 2 side by Nick Stevens
And a view from lower down. I’m experimenting with violet instead of green for the tank banding. There was quite a bit of work when i found out that the second stage should only have 4 tanks.
Nick Stevens
Daedalus Stage 2 side by Nick Stevens And a view from lower down. I'm experimenting with violet instead of green for the tank banding. There was quite a bit of work when i found out that the second stage should only have 4 tanks. Nick Stevens feedback2@starbase1.co.uk http://www.starbase1.co.uk/
http://www.starbase1.co.uk/
Daedalus by Robert van der Veeke
(Permission Pending)
Robert van der Veeke
rjvveeke@caiw.nl
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~rjvveeke/