"I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important in the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."   John F. Kennedy   Special Joint Session of Congress   May 25, 1961 Listed here are images created by the illustrators at Visual Concepts Inc., Houston, Texas in 1966 for the NASA Lunar Space Landing program. It must be noted that each illustration involved the efforts of various artists, each painting different sections of the drawing. For the most part, my primary contribution was adding details to the various crafts. Below are links to some of the NASA illustrations:

LM-CSM DOCKED LM-CSM DOCKED WITH S-IVB CM-SM SEPARATION TOUCHDOWN S-1C S-II SEPARATION REINTRY TURNAROUND OF CSM SEPARATION SU-S-IVB MIDCOURSE CORRECTION EARTH ORBIT INSERTION LUNAR MODULE DESCENT LUNAR ORBIT THE APOLLO VEHICLES HERE IS THE ENTIRE COLLECTION

Further comments: These concept illustrations were commissioned at the beginning of the program, primarily for promotional and educational purposes. As the project developed, the images were also modified to reflect the latest findings of the Gemini and later manned flight programs. For example, all of the jet exhausts were discovered to have an "umbrella" of gas surrounding the flame itself. These changes had to be made as information was upgraded. Also, the Saturn 5 was finally deployed as the booster for the Lunar attempt; most of the descriptions refer to engine stages. Click HERE for the history of the Saturn program By Wernher Von Braun.