Monday, October 31, 2016

Beep Beep

Have we detected alien civilizations? The jury hasn't been chosen and been seated, let alone decided. Walk with caution.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Extended Family View



Another view of actual and proposed vehicles. That's quite a collection!

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Twenty-First Century Vehicles



Depictions of crewed vehicles in our current century. Some flight-proven, some under testing or completely hypothetical.

Touring the Solar System



A poster depicting all of the robotic explorers of our Solar System.

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Sketches



A sketch (colored magic marker?) by Robert McCall of a lunar colony. I recall a bunch of these appearing in a magazine (newspaper Sunday supplement?) in the 1970's.

Geysers



David Hardy takes us to Enceladus. A plume in the foreground, Saturn dominates the sky.

Amalthea



Michael Carroll depicts the Galileo orbiter on approach to Jupiter, passing the small "potato moon" of Amalthea.

Return Journey



Artwork by Pat Rawlings showing private and government space stations in orbit around the Moon and a Earth-bound shuttle heading home.

Entry Interface



Uncredited art from 1968 showing the Apollo Command Module re-entering the atomosphere.

Dream Mighty Things



The SLS, Blue Glenn and now the ever-growing SpaceX family.

What's Up in the Solar System?



What's up in the solar system in terms of robotic exploration for October? (More than a few days behind in my posting, like much of my life right now.)

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Quest for the Homeworld

An article talking about E.C. Tubb and his most famous series: Dumarest of Terra. Stretching well over thirty (relatively thin) books, short on character, long on fantastic ideas, the series contributed to GDW's SF-RPG Traveller.