Published: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 in design » art by Thomas Baekdal
Back in the 1970s, just shortly after the Apollo missions, NASA had a lot of confidence. We would go to the stars, build humongous space stations, create a second earth - or several of them.
They commissioned a number of artists to come up with ‘some designs', and they sure looked great.
Today, of course, the politicians seems to be more concerned about the financial crisis, and waging war. Let's get out of Iraq, and build a space station instead.
BTW: The cost of war in Iraq is currently totaling $604 billion vs. cost of the entire Apollo Space Program at ‘just' $25 billion (about $105 factoring in the inflation). That is six entire Apollo Space programs wasted on shooting at people.
Also see the Apollo 11 Poster
(via NASA)
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Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks Gray
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Mar 10
2009
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i remember ogling these very pictures as a kid. yes we should shoot people INTO SPACE! btw, most of those "space stations" are O'Neill Cylinders:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier
http://www.nss.org/settlement/space/oneillcylinder.htm
http://www.nss.org/settlement/calendar/2009/GoetzScheuermann-oneillcylinder.htm