Space artist and short story writer. No AI, using only FOSS (Blender and GIMP)
Stories in Linktree. They've been everywhere.
Mood boards sometimes.
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Element115Art
Made with Blender.
Made with Blender. Background: NASA public domain image.
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Personal Culture novel ranking:
Look to Windward -> Matter -> Use of Weapons -> Inversions -> The Player of Games -> Excession -> The Hydrogen Sonata -> Surface Detail -> Consider Phlebas
I realize this might be a little iconoclastic.
AAP was a project to reuse Apollo program components for missions that weren't lunar landings. The two designs that flew were Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, but there were many, many designs submitted for NASA's consideration.
If you're going to read them you should read them in order though.
This set comes from a massive study undertaken by Convair to investigate the feasibility of large-scale erectable structures. There were dozens of designs, and they focused on clever ways of packing and deploying objects in space.
Happy Pride Month. Check out my short story "Prophet 60091" in @thepinkhydra.com: a #lgbtq+ romance with (probably) correct orbital mechanics.
#shortstory #indielit #writesky #scifi
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Apollo Applications Program Micrometeorite Collector, one of the many unflown concepts from the program. The petals would have folded around the central truss to fit inside the top of the S-IVB.
#spaceart #alternatehistory
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Obscure Apollo Applications Program designs:
Astronomy Interferometer
Inflatable Relay Satellite
X-ray Telescope
Geosynchronous Communication Antenna
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