USS Discovery Boldly Going

Since we have learned DSC is set 10 years before Kirk's famous 5 year mission, I was going for that 'strange new world'/big alien landscape' feel. And since we don't have a crew yet I wanted to evoke an emotion and the cold of space just wasn't doing it.

The shuttle (The Jemison) is based off the early Matt Jefferies design for the TOS shuttle that couldn't be built because of cost--too many curves I'd wager. Not exactly the same but in the same vein and a tad smaller.