The Improbable, Bold History of Space Concept Art – How We Get To Next
A brief history of space concept art—Norman Rockwell, Chesney Bonestell, Robert McCall, Pat Rawlings, David Meltzer …all the classics.
SSI Sample Slides | Space Studies Institute
The dream of SSI is of a humanity free of the constraints of the Earth. In expanding outward into space, we can not only help to preserve our present biosphere, we can also seed other independent biospheres elsewhere, ensuring the continued survival of life despite any kind of planetary disaster.
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Will we ever walk again on the surface of the moon?
A brief history of lunar sci-fi.
No matter how much we want the science fiction dream to come true – and personally I would love it – the reality is that a lunar colony is very unlikely to ever be financially viable. It would be no surprise if we saw more expeditions to the moon, but all those wonderful visions of the high frontier recreated in space are more likely to apply to destinations with a better long-term future, like Mars, rather than the moon.
Apollo 17 in Real-time
This is rather nice—a Spacelog-like timeline of Apollo 17, timeshifted by exactly 43 years.
Gene and the crew are on their way to the moon …the last humans to ever make the journey.
How We Could Actually Build a Space Colony - Popular Mechanics
This is basically porn for me.
Bernal spheres, Stanford tori, and O’Neill cylinders, oh my!