Here’s a nicely done biography of artist Chesley Bonestell, who created iconic images of space and of future explorers of space: The Artist Who Helped Invent Space Travel – io9.com.
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Horizons Newsletter Jan/Feb 2013 with 4th part of Colliers Magazine space series
The AIAA Houston Section has released the latest issue of the Horizons Newsletter is now on line.
January/February 2013 Issue
Volume 38, Number 4
(PDF: low resolution, 17.5MB; high resolution, 62.2MB)
It includes a wide range of articles on topics such as space Kickstarter projects, Science Fiction by Scientists, andSarah Brightman’s planned trip to the ISS.
It also includes the fourth installment of the reproduction of the Colliers Magazine series on space from 1952-1954. (See this previous posting about the third installment.)
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In addition to the Horizons team, the project includes Scott Lowther.
The fourth issue is described as follows:
February 28, 1953: World’s First Space Suit
Man’s Survival in Space, 10 Contributors & 3 Artists, edited by Cornelius Ryan
pp. 40-41
Picking the Men, pp. 42-48.
Chris Hadfield’s advice translated into inspirational cartoons
Many people are being inspired by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield who is creating great music and amazing photographs during his stay on the International Space Station and tweeting about his activities to the public. Australian artist Gaving Aung Than of the Zen Pencils site took some of Hadfield’s remarks given during a recent Reddit Ask Me Anything session and turned them into motivational cartoons:
Bryan Versteeg illustrates the future of space development
Bryan Versteeg has developed a very distinctive and impressive style of illustration of future space habitats, asteroid mines, Mars bases and other space facilities. See galleries of his images and videos at Space Habs by Bryan Versteeg.
For example, he created the asteroid mining images for Deep Space Industries, Inc.
Fuel Harvester concept:
Wheel Construction:
Space colony artists
Here’s an article about the artwork created to illustrate the large in-space habitats proposed by Gerard O’Neill and co-workers in the 1970s: The Men Who Made Space Colonies Look Like Home – DiscoverMagazine.com