http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/02/retrofuture-space-flight-15-visions-of-future-past/ Urban Culture, Alternative Art and Wonders of the World Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:16:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/02/retrofuture-space-flight-15-visions-of-future-past/comment-page-1/#comment-216275 Retrofuture Lesson Plans | My Fresh Plans Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:48:16 +0000 http://weburbanist.com/?p=8731#comment-216275 [...] Retrofuture space travel art [...] [...] Retrofuture space travel art [...]

]]> http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/02/retrofuture-space-flight-15-visions-of-future-past/comment-page-1/#comment-206871 ???????——?????? | Lizearle Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:29:37 +0000 http://weburbanist.com/?p=8731#comment-206871 [...] ??????Retrofuture Space Flight: 15 Visions of Future Past???? In the hopeful years following the Second World War, armed with new technologies and vivid imaginations, almost anything seemed possible to a society straining to break free from the cycle of earthly strife. Science fiction writers and visionary artists of the aborning Space Age applied their talents to picturing a grand future beyond the wild blue yonder. Some things they got right – others, not so much. These 15 examples highlight these visions of retrofuturistic space flight and the dreams of what could be including, of course, some classic babes in space. [...] [...] ??????Retrofuture Space Flight: 15 Visions of Future Past???? In the hopeful years following the Second World War, armed with new technologies and vivid imaginations, almost anything seemed possible to a society straining to break free from the cycle of earthly strife. Science fiction writers and visionary artists of the aborning Space Age applied their talents to picturing a grand future beyond the wild blue yonder. Some things they got right – others, not so much. These 15 examples highlight these visions of retrofuturistic space flight and the dreams of what could be including, of course, some classic babes in space. [...]

]]> http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/02/retrofuture-space-flight-15-visions-of-future-past/comment-page-1/#comment-184486 Urban Red Planet: Human Habitats On Mars | Design + Ideas on WU Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:56:29 +0000 http://weburbanist.com/?p=8731#comment-184486 [...] is our most likely destination. Chilly, lifeless (as far as we know) and frighteningly far away, Mars still offers the best hope for a human race whose figurative eggs have been kept in one basket for [...] [...] is our most likely destination. Chilly, lifeless (as far as we know) and frighteningly far away, Mars still offers the best hope for a human race whose figurative eggs have been kept in one basket for [...]

]]> http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/02/retrofuture-space-flight-15-visions-of-future-past/comment-page-1/#comment-141268 WebUrbanist Reaches over 100,000 RSS Readers | Rapidcow.com Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:46:11 +0000 http://weburbanist.com/?p=8731#comment-141268 [...] sibling site: WebEcoist. We have recently had our resident technologist, Steve Levenstein, covering radical retrofuturistic technologies as well as the evolution of all kinds of technology. Gerri Elder is the newest addition to the [...] [...] sibling site: WebEcoist. We have recently had our resident technologist, Steve Levenstein, covering radical retrofuturistic technologies as well as the evolution of all kinds of technology. Gerri Elder is the newest addition to the [...]

]]> http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/02/retrofuture-space-flight-15-visions-of-future-past/comment-page-1/#comment-126815 173 Radical Retrofuturistic Designs & Technologies | WebUrbanist Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:31:36 +0000 http://weburbanist.com/?p=8731#comment-126815 [...] Space, the final frontier… that famous catchphrase from the original Star Trek embodies the spirit of retrofuturism, equating the “high frontier” with the Wild West. Even before the first successful manned space flight, artists and designers were under tremendous pressure to show the public exactly what was to come - and it wasn’t easy, since space was a place where “no man had gone before”. Some of their illustrations may look a little campy nowadays but one can still sense the hope, the yearning, the great expectations of our fantastic future worlds away. The triumph of Man’s first moon landing and the tragedies of Challenger and Columbia would rob us of our innocence but we can still look back across a gulf of space and time to a world where we were young and our steps were those of a child: as Arthur C. Clarke put it, “Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting”. Click Here to visit more Visions of Retro-Future Space Flight [...] [...] Space, the final frontier… that famous catchphrase from the original Star Trek embodies the spirit of retrofuturism, equating the “high frontier” with the Wild West. Even before the first successful manned space flight, artists and designers were under tremendous pressure to show the public exactly what was to come – and it wasn’t easy, since space was a place where “no man had gone before”. Some of their illustrations may look a little campy nowadays but one can still sense the hope, the yearning, the great expectations of our fantastic future worlds away. The triumph of Man’s first moon landing and the tragedies of Challenger and Columbia would rob us of our innocence but we can still look back across a gulf of space and time to a world where we were young and our steps were those of a child: as Arthur C. Clarke put it, “Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting”. Click Here to visit more Visions of Retro-Future Space Flight [...]

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