This was fun and hard. I hope to see more space-type contests. I wish we had a week or two or ten to do this. ;)
Various ship textures from original sources. Background created from some NASA photos. Full is twice as big.

Thanks C_ for the advice.

Please VIEW it FULL.

The view from inside a high security transport ship...about to jump into sub-space.

Please check the source, to see where it started, and the WIP to see where so much time went. Thanks.

Had fun with this. :) I know that it's annoying to ask, but PLEASE VIEW FULL.

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Please view full :)

Thanks to Nasa.gov & Google images for the multitude of sources.

The past meets the present in this delux model AirSteed 2006.

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