Space colonies from the 70s

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In the 1970s, NASA commissioned artist renderings of concepts for 10,000 person colonies in space. These carry forward some of the fantastic tones of images from the ’50s, tempered some by the further scientific understandings of the time.

A few more after the jump.

NASA Space Colony Artwork

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Comments

  1. jessemellon | February 8th, 2009 | 7:02 pm

    Holy crap, that’s all getting downloaded. Beautiful stuff.

  2. leefur | February 8th, 2009 | 11:24 pm

    Make sure you go off to their site to download … they have ‘publication quality’ images for these and others. Way more pixel load. Technical term.

  3. Jed | February 9th, 2009 | 9:36 am

    I love these. I used the 2nd image on here for the cover art of a mix of songs from 1970.

    1970

  4. leefur | February 9th, 2009 | 1:30 pm

    Jed! That’s rad … and I just downloaded the album. Rad.

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