The whole voyage reduced to one object: a carried fire at one end, a lit room at the other, and the long cold spine that keeps them apart.
An artistic imagining of a crewed Mars transit habitat living on its own fission reactor, drawn in the reduced poster manner of Lucian Bernhard: one object, flat colour, and nothing else in the frame. The orange drum at the tail is the fire the ship carries; the dark cone is its shadow shield and the long boom is the rest of the crew's protection bought as distance, the unequal wings throw the waste heat away because vacuum will not carry it off, and the thin orange line ends at the collar where the power crosses into the lit rooms where the crew lives.Image: poweringspace.com. Artistic imagining.
