Space Art from 1970’s NASA
Posted on March 27th, 2008 by blue collar scientistI was wasting time on the internet the other day and came across this really neat page of depictions of space colonies that NASA Ames studied in the 1970’s. I’ve always had a soft spot for the sleek science fiction rockets of the 1950’s, but these plausible-concept space stations are just as cool.
There’s a nice cutaway view of the classical toroidal space station:
And browsing on a little further, I learned that Babylon 5 would be considered a Bernal sphere:
Lots of other nice art there; go have a look!
Tags: Ames Research Center, art, earth orbit, NASA, space, space colony, space station
March 30th, 2008 at 12:55 am
I stayed at a hotel in China last autumn that was furnished entirely in an Apollo-era science fiction style. Everything looked like a Kubrick stage set.