Recent content by Kirk Kerman

  1. Small Steps, Giant Leaps: An Alternate History of the Space Age

    It's my pleasure to be able to provide this important piece of concept art for the two stage variant of the Crew LLM for SLAP:

  2. A Sound of Thunder: The Rise of the Soviet Superbooster

    I also do think it's interesting how both L3M and Convair's Apollo proposal used that "let's put the capsule inside the habitat" approach. It does seem to simplify some things, though it also complicates some other things...

  3. A Sound of Thunder: The Rise of the Soviet Superbooster

    That was excellent! I know we've had stuff like in-universe video transcripts and such, but to actually have the video is a really cool touch. It does make me want to play Nurbel Space Race, if only to see how it stacks up! Also, looks like we have soft confirmation that we never see any other...

  4. Black Gemini: Two Stories of the Secret Second Life of America's Second Capsule

    I mean, it's not impossibly cramped, obviously but it is still rather lacking in interior maneuverability, and one would not want to have to suit an a debilitated crewmember to EVA into an escape capsule or cram them through a tiny heat shield hatch...

  5. Black Gemini: Two Stories of the Secret Second Life of America's Second Capsule

    I suspect Gemini would be rejected out of hand as an ACRV due to the cramped conditions and the... difficulty of boarding.

  6. Black Gemini: Two Stories of the Secret Second Life of America's Second Capsule

    That was really good! I love the way this timeline actually gave a reason for why the USAF should be sending up crews into space at all, and I also enjoyed the inclusion of an all-female crew, which I'm fairly certain still has yet to happen OTL. I can also see the Shuttle, while still flawed...

  7. Small Steps, Giant Leaps: An Alternate History of the Space Age

    I still think you should have called it The Deke Side of the Moon

  8. Black Gemini: Two Stories of the Secret Second Life of America's Second Capsule

    Just paint the service module black and cover the back in black foil. What could go wrong?

  9. A Sound of Thunder: The Rise of the Soviet Superbooster

    Your art had me hyped for this timeline long before I had the slightest inkling you were going to write it! Very excited to see where this goes!

  10. Small Steps, Giant Leaps: An Alternate History of the Space Age

    You Monsters.

  11. Eyes Turned Skywards

    Do like that Pringles super bowl ad and give it Orion EFT-1 heat shield tiles and Sokol IVA suits for some reason.

  12. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    I don't believe I've seen Dylan Semrau's work before, his stuff looks great!

  13. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    For some reason that part about Kepler D1 made me picture some dumb space disaster movie where the Shuttle is in trouble but they just happen to have a Kepler Lifeboat aboard for no reason.

  14. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    Ah, Bush, Quayle, and Truly... What could go right? Thankfully the signs are showing that this 90 Day report may be a bit less pie-in-the-sky. EDIT: Also, that chapter title is... truly unforgivable.

  15. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    We do know from the intro that some sort pf shuttle-derived heavy lifter will fly, though not until "STS-99-C"
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