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Toroidal Colonies
Three space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made.聽Population: 10,000聽
Credit:聽NASA Ames Research Center
Artists:聽 Don Davis &聽 Rick Guidice
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Golden Record聽
The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University, et. al. Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim.
"The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet."
聽Carl Sagan
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Guide to Private Space Flight聽Destinations
Credit: Tyler Skrabek
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Spacecraft of the World聽
Demonstrates the different vehicle sections of each module and how many passengers聽would fit inside a very limited volume of space to scale.
Credits: Tyler Skrabek
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Manned Orbital Spacecraft
From the first manned spacecraft that was launched with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in April 12th, 1961 to the iconic Space Shuttle spacecraft first flown coincidentally on April 12th, 1981 to spacecrafts that may one day be the ones used for future missions such as returning to the Moon and landing on Mars.
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Rockets of human spaceflight with their respective nozzle configurations
Credits: Tyler Skrabek
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Rockets of the world to scale
From smallest to largest. Don鈥檛 forget upper left corner shows an ice cream truck to scale. Note: Not all rockets of the world are included but most of them are.
Credit:聽 Tyler Skrabek聽
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