lance - Portfolio images - NewsPageDesigner2024-03-29T00:46:30Zhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/feed/tag/lanceMOON 10 - AMERICA’S NEW STAR FLEEThttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-10-america-s-new-star-fleet2019-07-23T01:08:29.000Z2019-07-23T01:08:29.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822244865?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The penultimate installment of the Houston Chronicle’s epic 11-part Mission Moon series dealt with the future for NASA: What they have planned, where they’re going to go and how they’re going to pay for it. This was yet another piece I had drawn for the Orange County Register years ago that we updated for Part 10.</p><p>JULY 14, 2019</p></div>MOON 11 - TIMELINEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-11-timeline2019-07-23T01:08:29.000Z2019-07-23T01:08:29.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822214292?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>For the final day of the Houston Chronicle’s Mission Moon series, I used the space they gave me each segment for a timeline to show the timeline of just this one mission.</p><p>JULY 20, 2019</p></div>MOON 11 - MOON SHOTShttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-11-moon-shots2019-07-23T01:08:29.000Z2019-07-23T01:08:29.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822212472?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>To run along with the detailed lunar module diagram, my editors chose this one from my files — a look at famous photography from the Apollo 11 mission. I originally built this one for the Orange County Register on the 45th anniversary of the moon landing. I updated the info, pulled fresh copies of all the photos and re-toned everything. We also used this for my new paper, the Spokesman-Review.</p><p>JULY 20, 2019</p></div>MOON 11 - THE FLIGHT OF APOLLO 11https://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-11-the-flight-of-apollo-112019-07-23T01:08:29.000Z2019-07-23T01:08:29.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822209671?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I wanted to do something special for the final installment of the Houston Chronicle’s epic 11-part Mission Moon series. After a LOT of thought, I decided I wanted to build the nicest diagram of the lunar module ever made. I’ve seen dozens of these over the years that labeled the parts. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen one that EXPLAINS what all those parts do. So that’s where I concentrated my focus. The digram up top shows how they got there and back. And two little sections below show the landing site itself — including an actual photo of the site by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and then a look at the two scientific instruments Neil and Buzz left on the moon. One of them still works!</p><p>JULY 20, 2019</p></div>MOON 10 - TIMELINEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-10-timeline2019-07-23T01:08:29.000Z2019-07-23T01:08:29.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822206693?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The timeline for Part 10 of the Houston Chronicle’s Mission Moon series was probably the most challenging of all 11 segments. They wanted me to show NASA’s plans for the future… which have been a moving target all along, but especially lately — with SpaceX and Boeing both losing test craft this spring and then Trump and Pence popping up with deadlines. Took some work to make it happen, but the result holds together pretty well.</p><p>JULY 14, 2019</p></div>MOON 10 - ‘NO BUCKS, NO BUCK ROGERS’https://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-10-no-bucks-no-buck-rogers2019-07-23T01:08:29.000Z2019-07-23T01:08:29.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822204863?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>For Part 10 of the Houston Chronicle’s Mission Moon series — which dealt with NASA’s future — I wanted to make the point that the agency has been given a mandate to go back to the moon and then to Mars. But without a major infusion of cash, that’s not likely to happen. NASA’s current appropriation is about a third of what it was during the height of Project Apollo — when adjusted for inflation.</p><p>JULY 14, 2019</p></div>MOON 9 - TIMELINEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-9-timeline2019-07-23T01:05:55.000Z2019-07-23T01:05:55.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822212899?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I used the timeline for Part Nine of the Houston Chronicle’s Mission Moon series to show what NASA’s been up to since Neil and Buzz walked on the moon 50 years ago.</p><p>JUNE 30, 2019</p></div>MOON 8 - NASA’S MARS ROVERS COMPAREDhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-8-nasa-s-mars-rovers-compared2019-07-23T01:05:55.000Z2019-07-23T01:05:55.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822230073?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Part Eight of the Houston Chronicle’s epic 11-part Mission Moon series focused on efforts to get to Mars. I pitched several ideas but none of them flew — except this one, comparing the three Mars rovers NASA has sent to the red planet. There is another rover planned for next year, by the way. Most of this material I had used in a graphic five years ago at the Orange County Register.</p><p>JUNE 16, 2019</p></div>MOON 9 - SPACE STATIONS COMPAREDhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-9-space-stations-compared2019-07-23T01:05:55.000Z2019-07-23T01:05:55.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822210681?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>A second graphic for Part Nine of the Houston Chronicle’s Mission Moon series compared the sizes of today’s ISS with the Salyut, Mir and Skylab space stations. I had built this one two or three years ago to run in the Chronicle’s e-edition. So this was a retrieve-and-update piece.</p><p>JUNE 30, 2019</p></div>MOON 9 - INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-9-international-space-station2019-07-23T01:05:55.000Z2019-07-23T01:05:55.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822207282?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Part Nine of the Houston Chronicle’s epic 11-part Mission Moon series focused on what NASA has been doing the past two or three decades with the shuttle and the International Space Station. I had built this diagram five years ago for the Orange County Register and the Mission Moon team thought it would help tell this day’s story. I had to make some updates, though — Evidently, they like to move around some of the modules from time to time. And there’s one that has been waiting to be added for 12 years, now.</p><p>JUNE 30, 2019</p></div>DRESSED FOR SUCCESShttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/dressed-for-success2019-07-23T01:05:55.000Z2019-07-23T01:05:55.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822205086?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>This one was another daily — smaller stories tucked between the giant installments of Mission Moon that ran every other Sunday in the Houston Chronicle. My task this time was to show the space suits that NASA astronauts have worn. I had very little space in which to do this, so the pictures had to be very small. And it’s a shame you can’t see these in color. The fourth one is bright orange.</p><p>JUNE 25, 2019</p></div>MOON 8 - TIMELINEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-8-timeline2019-07-23T01:05:55.000Z2019-07-23T01:05:55.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822202694?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>As you’re seeing, we ran a timeline with each of the major installments of the Houston Chronicle’s 11-part Mission Moon series. With Part Eight focusing on Mars, I built a timeline of unmanned exploration of the Red planet, starting with Mariner 4 in 1965 and running through plans for the next good launch window in 2020.</p><p>JUNE 16, 2019</p></div>MOON 6 - TIMELINEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-6-timeline2019-07-23T01:02:39.000Z2019-07-23T01:02:39.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822221283?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The timeline for Part Six of the Houston Chronicle’s 11-part Mission Moon series covered just Project Apollo — starting with the landing of the first Surveyor on the moon in 1966 and running through the final Apollo moon landing, Apollo 16 in 1972.</p><p>MAY 19, 2019</p></div>MOON 5 - NASA’S ASTRONAUT CORPS OF THE 1960S AND 1970Shttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-5-nasa-s-astronaut-corps-of-the-1960s-and-1970s2019-07-23T01:02:39.000Z2019-07-23T01:02:39.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822214854?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Part Five of the Houston Chronicle’s epic 11-part series commemorating the first moon landing focused on the “right stuff” guys — the members of the astronaut corps. I’ve seen lists and I’ve seen the group photos NASA released when each group was introduced to the public. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen a mass listing in one place: Names, faces, on which vehicles they flew and when. I really, really want to see a graphic like that. Therefore, it’s up to me to build it. I wish you could see the color version — I hand-toned all 73 of those photos for color. Sigh. Oh, and the shaded ones were the six that walked on the moon. This entire thing was about a page and a half, running on facing two-thirds of a page. The timeline showing all the astronaut classes ran along the bottom of those pages. Jump ran down the sides.</p><p>MAY 5, 2019</p></div>MOON 7 - TIMELINEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-7-timeline2019-07-23T01:02:39.000Z2019-07-23T01:02:39.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822227701?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The topic for Part Seven of the Houston Chronicle’s Mission Moon series covered the business and contractors angle. So I used our timeline space for this installment to show the development of the Saturn V and Apollo, from JFK’s 1961 speech promising a man on the moon until it happened in July 1969.</p><p>JUNE 2, 2019</p></div>MOON 7 - THE ENORMOUS COST OF THE MOON EFFORThttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-7-the-enormous-cost-of-the-moon-effort2019-07-23T01:02:39.000Z2019-07-23T01:02:39.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822226454?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Part Seven of the Houston Chronicle’s 11-part Mission Moon series delved into the business angle of Apollo. I figured this would be a good time to show what percentage of NASA’s annual budget was sucked up by the moon effort between 1961 and 1973.</p><p>JUNE 2, 2019</p></div>MOON 7 - WHO BUILT IThttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-7-who-built-it2019-07-23T01:02:39.000Z2019-07-23T01:02:39.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822224494?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Part Seven of the Houston Chronicle’s epic 11-part series on the anniversary of man walking on the moon covered the business of Apollo — and how contractors around the country helped work on the moon effort. Fifty years ago — at Christmas following Apollo 11 — I was given a book that listed some of the major contractors who had built the Saturn V rocket. I’ve always wanted to do that as a graphic but there has never been a call for something like that. Until now.</p><p>JUNE 2, 2019</p></div>MOON 6 - FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPShttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-6-following-the-footsteps2019-07-23T01:02:39.000Z2019-07-23T01:02:39.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822220057?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Part Six of the Houston Chronicle’s 11-part series focused on just Project Apollo itself. My graphic contribution this time around was a disc of the “near side” of the moon showing where each of the six missions landed. In fact, I built a larger piece also showing where all the Surveyors and other unmanned missions landed before and after Apollo. But I guess we were interested in only the manned missions or something.</p><p>MAY 19, 2019</p></div>WHAT WE (THINK WE) KNOW ABOUT THE MOONhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/what-we-think-we-know-about-the-moon2019-07-23T01:02:39.000Z2019-07-23T01:02:39.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822218289?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>While most of these space graphics ran with the Houston Chronicle’s 11-part series on the anniversary of Apollo 11, this one ran as a daily. The idea was to show what we know about the geology of the moon… but to do it in very little space. I really regret not having color position for these graphics.</p><p>MAY 15, 2019</p></div>MOON 5 - TIMELINEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-5-timeline2019-07-23T01:02:39.000Z2019-07-23T01:02:39.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822216474?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>This was the timeline that ran across two facing pages that accompanied the massive astronaut corps graphic. While that one showed only the pre-Apollo and Apollo-era groups of astronauts — through August 1969 — the timeline covers every astronaut through up through Group 22 in 2017. For the Houston Chronicle’s moon anniversary series.</p><p>MAY 5, 2019</p></div>PART FOUR TIMELINEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/part-four-timeline2019-04-25T17:51:57.000Z2019-04-25T17:51:57.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822108862?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The emphasis for this installment of the Houston Chronicle’s 11-part series on the anniversary of the first moon landing was on NASA and the moon effort’s effect on pop culture of the 1960s and 1970s. We decided that more generic approach of significant milestones in the space effort was called for this time around for the timeline. This one starts with Alan Shepard’s first U.S. manned space flight and runs through the final moon landing mission: Apollo 17, 11 years later.</p><p>APRIL 21, 2019</p></div>WHEN HOLLYWOOD DOES THE NASA THINGhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/when-hollywood-does-the-nasa-thing2019-04-25T17:51:57.000Z2019-04-25T17:51:57.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822106454?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Now, THIS was a lot of fun. Part four of the Houston Chronicle’s epic 11-part series on NASA’s first moon landing 50 years ago looked at the effect the moonshot had on pop culture. I was asked to compile a list of space-related — and especially NASA-related — movies. I pulled in the obvious ones — “Apollo 13,” “The Right Stuff,” “Hidden Figures” — but also stretched just a bit to include surprises like Don Knotts in “The Reluctant Astronaut.” In that one, NASA wants to prove to the world it can send ANYbody into space, so it sends a janitor from the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.</p><p>APRIL 21, 2019</p></div>PART THREE TIMELINEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/part-three-timeline2019-04-25T17:51:57.000Z2019-04-25T17:51:57.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822103091?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>For part three of the Houston Chronicle’s moon shot series, we focused on international cooperative efforts in space. I started the timeline for this chapter with Apollo 11, ran through the Apollo/Soyuz test project, the Mir and ISS efforts and up to the hoped-for resumption of U.S. launches in 2020.</p><p>APRIL 7, 2019</p></div>MANNED SPACEFLIGHTS BY COUNTRYhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/manned-spaceflights-by-country2019-04-25T17:51:57.000Z2019-04-25T17:51:57.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822101066?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>With the Chronicle writing about U.S. and Russian cooperative efforts in space, I thought it might be a good idea to put this into perspective by showing readers just how many space flights each country has flown. On the U.S. side — the blue dots — you can see things ramp up in the 1980s and 1990s. With significant drop-offs in 1986-87 and 20003-04 — after NASA lost the shuttles Challenger and Columbia, respectively. NASA’s shuttle fleet was retired in 2011, which is why you see no more blue dots after that. Nowadays, the U.S. pays Russia to ferry its astronauts to the International Space Station.</p><p>APRIL 7, 2019</p></div>A DIPLOMATIC ACHIEVEMENT — AS WELL AS A TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT — IN SPACEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/a-diplomatic-achievement-as-well-as-a-technical-achievement-in2019-04-25T17:51:56.000Z2019-04-25T17:51:56.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822098686?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The third installment of the Chronicle’s 11-part NASA series took a look at cooperative international efforts in space. That started in 1975 with what came to be called the Apollo/Soyuz Test Project. A number of hurdles had to be overcome before U.S. and Soviet craft could meet up in orbit. And they were. Replicas of these two craft occupy a prominent spot in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.</p><p>APRIL 7, 2019</p></div>MOON SERIES PART TWO TIMELINEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-series-part-two-timeline2019-03-28T00:32:37.000Z2019-03-28T00:32:37.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822068283?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I’m researching and writing a timeline for each part of the Houston Chronicle’s 11-part series on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. This one, which ran with Part Two, focused on the creation of the Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston. These two pieces ran across the bottom of two facing pages.</p><p>MARCH 24, 2019</p></div>A LOOK AT THE JOHNSON SPACE CENTERhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/a-look-at-the-johnson-space-center2019-03-28T00:32:37.000Z2019-03-28T00:32:37.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822031080?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The second part of the Houston Chronicle’s epic 11-part NASA series focused on the creation of what is now the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the home of Mission Control. I took the tour, of course, several years ago and I’ve seen maps. But I’ve never seen one that really helped understand what was out there and how it all related to other buildings. Naturally, this just made me want to build a diagram that would do this. The key component was the aerial photo supplied by NASA. The latest such photo I could find was more than ten years ago, so I asked the Chronicle’s superb assistant photo editor to see if the agency could supply us with something newer. Turns out they had just what I wanted — but they hadn’t posted it yet. I love it when a plan comes together.</p><p>MARCH 10, 2019</p></div>NASA FIELD CENTERShttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/nasa-field-centers2019-03-28T00:32:37.000Z2019-03-28T00:32:37.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822028458?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The second part of the Houston Chronicle’s big NASA series focused on the creation of what is now the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the home of Mission Control. I thought it would give some context to the story to show where all ten of NASA’s field centers are in the U.S. as well as seven other notable facilities.</p><p>MARCH 10, 2019</p></div>FLY ME TO THE MOONhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/fly-me-to-the-moon2019-03-18T19:48:25.000Z2019-03-18T19:48:25.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5821992279?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>For part one of the Houston Chronicle’s epic 11-part moon landing anniversary series, we thought it might be nice to give readers a quick recap — you know, for those of us who don’t have all this stuff memorized — showing just how many missions landed on the moon (six), how many astronauts actually got to walk on the moon (12) and those odd highlights you might remember from a half-century ago: That time they hit a golf ball on the moon, for example. Or the time they fixed a fender on the moon buggy with a plastic map and duct tape. This is the fourth time I’ve done this particular graphic over the past 14 or 15 years.</p><p>MARCH 10, 2019</p></div>MOON SERIES PART ONE TIMELINEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-series-part-one-timeline2019-03-18T19:48:25.000Z2019-03-18T19:48:25.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5821989695?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>On March 10, the Houston Chronicle kicked off a ginormous 11-part series that will lead up to the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 in July. My former paper hired me to do graphics for this series. Part of that will be a timeline for each installment that covers the span of time covered. For part one — which focused on John F. Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade -- I went from the launch of Sputnik to the last Mercury flight in 1963.</p><p>MARCH 10, 2019</p></div>