Thursday, February 27, 2014

Space Colony Art from the 1970s

In the 1970′s Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill with NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University  explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed and a number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made.





They look a little like the comic books I read as a child. They also look a lot like suburban North America.

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