In the age of disco and inspired by putting a man on the moon, NASA dreamed big as these photos from their archives so thrillingly demonstrate.
Amongst their many projects at the time, NASA Ames proposed massive spaceships that would orbit communities of 10,000 people around the earth--planned communities in space--and they commissioned a series fantastical artistic renderings of the vision. “These orbital space settlements could be wonderful places to live; about the size of a California beach town and endowed with weightless recreation, fantastic views, freedom, elbow-room in spades, and great wealth,” describes Al Globus, Senior Research Associate for NASA Ames.
Check out the gallery in the NASA archives and show the kids; maybe they’ll end up being the dreamers we need to once again be inspired on this kind of scale.
Full story at NASA via FastCo Design.
Visions of NASA.
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