Mack Crawford

@mackinspace.bsky.social

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Artist, aerospace nerd, software engineer

A Mars transfer vehicle propulsively capturing into orbit over Mars. Three nuclear-thermal engines glow purple as they fire. An Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle is docked to an inflatable habitat module at the front of the craft
Ares V's payload fairing split into 4 pieces and falls away from the second stage, carrying a nuclear propulsion module
An Orion spacecraft capturing into a low lunar orbit, propelled by a long-duration Centaur V upper stage. Orion's solar array wings are canted backwards while Centaur's engines fire
An Orbital Transfer Vehicle with an aerocapture heat shield docking to a space station, next to a Space Shuttle orbiter
Parallel-staging variant of the Boeing Advanced Launch System carrying a biconic Personnel Launch System capsule
X-38 lifting body in independent flight in low Earth orbit
Biconic crew capsule separating from a conical service module, firing RCS thrusters
MURP spaceplane separating from SERV booster with a space station module underneath
Habitat module on top of a lunar lander, sitting on the surface of the moon. Earth hangs above the horizon in the distance
Piloted lunar lander from the First Lunar Outpost program descending towards the lunar surface, with a habitat module in the background
Space Shuttle in flight after SRB separation, assisted by a Titan Liquid Boost Module
Launch of a Space Shuttle orbiter and External Tank on a Saturn V S-IC booster
The USAF's Manned Orbiting Laboratory in space