Space Travel
Follies of the Madmen #611
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 14, 2024 -
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Category: Health, Advertising, Space Travel, Twentieth Century
Rowland Emett’s “Lunar Cycle”
Watch the video below the screenshot.His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 14, 2024 -
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Category: Humor, Inventions, Rube Goldberg Devices, Cartoons, Space Travel, 1970s
Satellite Queen
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 14, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Children, Space Travel, 1950s
The Obayashi Space Elevator
Back in 2012, the Obayashi Corporation announced that it would have built a functioning space elevator by 2050, and that construction of it would begin in 2025.But when journalists recently checked in with the company to see if all was proceeding on schedule, they found (no surprise) that no, the company won't be starting construction of a space elevator next year. But the company still claims that it's "engaged in research and development, rough design, partnership building, and promotion."
So I doubt that I'll get to see a space elevator in my lifetime.
More info: ScienceAlert.com, Obayashi Corporation
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 10, 2024 -
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Category: Technology, Space Travel, Transportation
Von Hutch The Mad Martian Pinstriper
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 01, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Space Travel, 1950s, Cars
Tails for humans
Millions of years ago our ancestors had tails. Design student Cheng Chang believes that when humans start living in space they'll need tails again. So he built one.When our hands and feet are no longer suitable for the task of controlling our movement in zero gravity. we need a new form of body extension
More info: Royal College of Art
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 21, 2024 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Space Travel
Mr. Squiggle
All is explained at the Wikipedia page.Weird as the newer version is, the 1950s show was even weirder. Go to this link, for a non-embeddable sample.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 10, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Puppets and Automatons, Television, Space Travel, Australia, Twentieth Century
Miss Moon Maid of 1965
More fotos and text at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 09, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Comics, Space Travel, 1960s
The One-Way Mission to the Moon
1962: Fearing that the Soviets were going to beat the United States to the moon, two engineers from Bell Aerosystems Company, John Cord and Leonard Seale, proposed a way to make sure America got there first. Their idea was to send an astronaut on a one-way mission to the moon. After all, it's a lot easier to send a man to the moon if you don't have to worry about bringing him back.They presented their idea at the meeting of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in Los Angeles and also published it in the Dec 1962 issue of Aerospace Engineering.
Read the entire article (pdf)
Their plan was for NASA to first land a series of unmanned cargo vehicles on the moon that would contain all the necessities for a lunar base. An astronaut would then make the journey to the moon and, after landing, assemble the base. Every month NASA would send a new cargo vehicle to resupply the astronaut with essentials — food, water, and oxygen. This would continue until NASA figured out a way to bring him back.
NASA, perhaps sensing that the public would perceive a one-way mission as an admission of defeat rather than a sign of victory, ignored the proposal.
Base for a one-way lunar mission
Although NASA ignored Cord and Seale's plan, it caught the attention of science-fiction writer Hank Searls, serving as the inspiration for his 1964 novel, The Pilgrim Project. Hollywood developed Searls' book into a 1968 movie, Countdown, directed by Robert Altman and starring James Caan and Robert Duvall.
In both the book and movie, NASA succeeds in landing an astronaut on the moon. The astronaut then discovers that the Soviets got there first — but all died.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 06, 2023 -
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Category: Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Space Travel, 1960s
From India to the Planet Mars
A good article here.
Read the book at the Internet Archive.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 19, 2023 -
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Category: Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Space Travel, 1900s
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