The emergency hospital section of Wernher Von Braun's Space Wheel as seen in Man and the Moon (Tomorrow Land), 1955)  references the Henu Barque from the Egyptian Book of the Dead?


 
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a) The Emergency Hospital Section

 
 
 
 
b) detail of The Emergency Hospital Section
 

 
 
 
 
c) Henu Barque from the Papyrus of Ani version of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
 
 
 
 
 
 
d) Three rudders become three hospital beds

 
 
 
 
 
e) In some way you could even imagine the three white areas that are supposed to be piles of sand contributing to the idea of the three beds

 
 
 
 
 
f) The henu barque support frame and its equivalent
 

 

 

g) The crouching man becomes the surgery chair
 

 

 

h) Oryx head and fan become surgery light and mechanical arm or whatever it is



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