Nostalgia!

[james_davis_nicoll]

Remember L5 colonies? Well,

Three space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. These have been scanned and are available here as small, medium, large, and publication quality jpeg images. Scans by David Brandt-Erichsen.

An example:


I chose this one because as far as I know it contains the only non-white person ever depicted in a space colony illustration from this era.

Comments

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

Oooo, and if you ramp up to a Nicoll-Dyson laser, you could isotopically separate PLANETS. In other solar systems! So they'd be waiting for our laser-pushed generation ships!

--Dave, and we'd have all the He3 we could eat!