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Smithsonian 3D Apollo 11 Command Module
This is so wonderful! A 3D fly-through of the Apollo 11 command module, right in your browser. It might get your fan whirring, but it’s worth it.
Click through for lots of great details on the interface controls, like which kinds of buttons and switches were chosen for which tasks.
And there’s this lovely note scrawled near the sextant by Michael Collins (the coolest of all the astronauts):
Spacecraft 107, alias Apollo 11, alias ‘Columbia.’ The Best Ship to Come Down the Line. God Bless Her.
NASA – Past and Present Dreams of the Future | Benedict Redgrove
A selection from an ongoing photography project—seven years and counting—leading up to the launch of the Orion project.
The Improbable, Bold History of Space Concept Art – How We Get To Next
A brief history of space concept art—Norman Rockwell, Chesney Bonestell, Robert McCall, Pat Rawlings, David Meltzer …all the classics.
A Complete History of the Millennium Falcon — Kitbashed
Everything you never knew you wanted to know about the Millennium Falcon, wrapped up in one unsurprisingly insanely detailed essay from Michael.
Apollo 17 in Real-time
This is rather nice—a Spacelog-like timeline of Apollo 17, timeshifted by exactly 43 years.
Gene and the crew are on their way to the moon …the last humans to ever make the journey.
Culture Ship Randomizer · A gravitas free zone.
For when you just have to name something after a Culture General Systems Vehicle …or maybe a General Contact Unit.
spaceprobe.es Data From Space
A fantastic new site from Ariel and Lisa: a collection of probes that are out in space right now, with oodles of facts for each mission and links through to more resources. SCIENCE!
How We Could Actually Build a Space Colony - Popular Mechanics
This is basically porn for me.
Bernal spheres, Stanford tori, and O’Neill cylinders, oh my!
SKYLON Users’ Manual (PDF)
Tech specs for a spacecraft that doesn’t exist (yet).
Kosmograd: The death of Kosmograd
The Ballardian beauty of a dying Baikonour.
Sci-Fi Airshow :: Home
I want to go to there!
This is what Photoshop is for. Be sure to watch the slideshow.
Orbital Space Colonies (in form of geometric primitives) : socks-studio
A gallery of all your standard space stations: the Stanford Torus, the Bernal Sphere and the O’Neill Cylinder.
Project Icarus
A joint effort by the Tau Zero Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society to research the design of an interstellar spacecraft.
100 Year Starship Study
Now this looks like a fascinating project …and there’s a symposium happening in Florida at the end of September with Jill Tartar, Stewart Brand and more. I want to go to there.
Atlas V Juno launch - August 5, 2011 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
So long, Juno. Call me when you get to Jupiter.
Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth ‘Crying In Rage’ : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
An astonishing story from the Soviet side of the space race that is equal parts stupidity and sacrifice.
SSI Sample Slides | Space Studies Institute
The dream of SSI is of a humanity free of the constraints of the Earth. In expanding outward into space, we can not only help to preserve our present biosphere, we can also seed other independent biospheres elsewhere, ensuring the continued survival of life despite any kind of planetary disaster.
Space craft - a set on Flickr
There's some lovely Buran porn here.
concept ships
An online animated spaceship and experimental aircraft art magazine. Gorgeous.