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

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that. Not convincing, since hydrogen production from reduced chemical sources (including biomass) is quite hard to beat.