Tuesday, 19 February 2008

nasa space colony art from 1970s



NASA Space Colony Art from the 1970s

Space and Astronomical Art Journal: NASA Space Colony Art

In the 1970's Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill with the help of NASA

Ames Research Center and Stanford University showed that we can build

giant orbiting spaceships and live in them. A couple of space colony

summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies

housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic

renderings of the concepts were made. These have been converted to

jpegs and are available as thumbnails, quarter page, full screen and

publication quality images.

Great cylindrical utopias. At some times these might have seemed

remotely feasible...

Link: Space Colony Art from the 1970s

Gerard K. O'Neill: Space Colonies: The High Frontier

Wikipedia: Gerard K. O'Neill

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