Welcome to the Future of my Past.

[athelind]

When I was a kid in the '70s, one my favorite books in my personal library was a tattered mass-market paperback edition of T.A. Heppenheimer's Colonies in Space, an accurate, detailed summary of the NASA studies of long-term orbital habitats and space colonization for the layman.

One of the most inspiring parts of that book were the illustrations, ranging from technical drawings to beautiful, sweeping, strnagely pastor panoramas of Standford toruses and O'Neill cylinders, painted by one Donald Davis.

Mr. Davis has just released several of his NASA commissions to the public domain, saying, and I quote:

"You paid for them and they're yours."

Comments

[jirris-midvale.livejournal.com]

Oh good lord. Thank you. Thank you so much. Seeing something like this brings tears to my eyes. It's so beautiful. Several levels of me just.. just light up at this.

Thank you so very much for sharing this with me. It's very inspiring and reminds me of the potential we have.

[cpxbrex.livejournal.com]

That's pretty fuckin' cool, hehe.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

You know, I remeber seeing that one... I forget where, but... Definitely seen it on something I've had for years.

[mythos-amante.livejournal.com]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

[foofers.livejournal.com]

Ah, the optimism of my youth. I remember this shit from OMNI magazine!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I remember that precise picture. The book was long forgotten, but I remembered the picture.

[scarfman]

whoa

[iridium-wolf.livejournal.com]

I had a space station/space exploration book too, with nice full color pictures just like this. *nostalgic sigh*

[wy.livejournal.com]

Awesome.