The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter project announces the winning photo of the contest to choose which LRO image will be the cover of their Moon as Art collection :
Category Archives: Space Arts
The latest space art from Bryan Versteeg
Artist Bryan Versteeg (see earlier posts here and here) has developed an extraordinarily detailed vision of spaceships, in-space habitats, asteroid mines, space settlements, and other space systems and facilities that he renders in a hyper-realistic computer generated style. His Spacehabs.com website offers a great gallery of works to peruse and purchase.
Gizmodo has collected a nice subset: What a space settlement would actually look like in real life – gizmodo
Here are some clips of how a giant habitat named Kalpana One would look inside:
Museum of Science Fiction planned for D.C.
The Museum of Science Fiction is a Washington, D.C. based project to
build a museum, an experience that does justice to the breadth and richness of science fiction history, where we preserve that history in perpetuity and inspire visitors to embrace the genre and its ideas. As a first step, we are developing a 3,000-square-foot preview museum where we can test exhibit concepts and new interactive technologies to share a real-time look into this grassroots effort. We have begun our site selection process. We expect to open the full-scale facility within 24 to 36 months.
Here is a video about the museum
Seattle’s EMP Museum “Music + Sci-fi + Pop Culture”, founded by Paul Allen, now includes the former standalone Science Fiction Museum and is referred to as the “Science Fiction Hall of Fame”.
ISS astronaut’s Klingon-inspired mission patch
Robert Pearlman reports that astronaut Steve Swanson, currently a crew member on the International Space Station, had a “badass” Star Trek Klingon inspired mission patch designed with the help of his daughter. However, it was eventually watered down into a conventional patch design: Astronaut’s cloaked Klingon space patch: Star Trek-inspired emblem revealed – collectSPACE
Two designs by Steven Swanson and his daughter Caroline.
(Collectspace/Swanson)
In this Instagram image of Swanson on the ISS, he has the Klingon inspired artwork on his T-shirt:
A catalog of cislunar space films
Ken Murphy, President of The Moon Society and curator of the Lunar Library, LLC, posts an extensive list of movies up through 2002 in which the plot involved some aspect of exploration and development of cislunar space region: Cislunar cinema (part 1) – The Space Review.
He says, “Part 2 will look at the films of the “New Millennium Era” and trends from such films overall”.