I'm collecting a lot of illustrations, some explanatory and some humorous and some provocative, for my book.

What I need now are some fictional/artistic views of 'dead astronauts on the Moon'.

Sspecifically I tried to get a still from 'Space Cowboys' where at the end Tommy Lee Jones in his spacesuit is sitting on the moon leaning against the wreckage and watching Earth.

Can anybody obtain such a view and email it to me at
joberg@houston.rr.com?

No hurry. And a 400x400 jpeg will be fine, it's for a small page insert.

Jim, I can do that no probs. Any more specific requests? Vid capture is fairly easy with my setup (famous last words?).

I just got back from the video store. If I had known I would have rented 'Space Cowboys' and gotten you a DVD screen shot. I wouldn't mind seeing that movie again, it was pretty cool. I am d/ling it now but the people who have it don't seem to have a ton of bandwidth...umm..nevermind, just shot up to 125 KB/s. Not blazing speed but definitely better than 20 KB/s. If someone doesn't send you a shot within the next couple hours and this d/l stays at a good speed I will send you a shot. It is a high quality 700 MB DivX .avi so it will be decnt picture quality, especially at 400x400

Jim, photos sent. Let me know if they're OK, or if you want anything else...

OK, I guess I don't need to send them. Thanks for the movie suggestion though JimO, I can never think of any good movies to watch.

I remember a video cover for some B-grade movie that has a skeletal astronaut lying on a lunar-like surface. I think the movie is from sometime in the mid to late 80's, but I can't remember the title now. I remember that it was a rather dramatic illustration though. Does anybody else know this video?

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JimO - how about the cover art from James P. Hogan's "Inherit the Stars". The image in this link isn't very big, but it's the best I've found in a quick search. It was originally published by Ballantine - They might be able to get you a better version if you have any contacts.

Dave,

Might you be referring to Def-con 4? Here is a link to the cover art of the box: http://us.imdb.com/Posters?0087130
If I recall, this was an excerably bad movie but the art was a bit creepy.

These are cool illustrations and there's also a painting by Sokolov of two future astrnauts finding a hundred-year-dead colleage face down in the dust.

The pix would just be used in opening a chapter on radiation, that hoaxists don't think enough astronauts died to be credible. I ask, how many deaths would they consider proof of reality of the missions?