tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post82553853350963936..comments2024-03-21T08:00:48.696-07:00Comments on No Shortage of Dreams: Gumdrops on Mars (1966)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-87827490184447027542021-06-10T20:23:25.144-07:002021-06-10T20:23:25.144-07:00In terms of style it doesn't look like one of ...In terms of style it doesn't look like one of Lange's to me, but maybe. . .David S. F. Portreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818906581595028816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-6264843211818344532021-05-30T12:44:59.179-07:002021-05-30T12:44:59.179-07:00Presuming this was a slide shown during Franklin D...Presuming this was a slide shown during Franklin Dixon's "Summary Presentation: Study of a Manned Mars Excursion Module" talk at Marshall Spaceflight Center's Symposium on Manned Planetary Missions, June 1964, at which conference Harry Lange was presumably in attendance, and given the helmets' similarity to Lange's own for "2001," is it possible the artist WAS Dornveldt Built the Saturn Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18165413182833175691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-82518509664015303282017-04-27T14:49:51.410-07:002017-04-27T14:49:51.410-07:00Thanks for that response. I figured that it was a...Thanks for that response. I figured that it was a NASA or contractor "rule." Today the image was used over on Gizmodo. I saw it on the same site attached to a different article back in February. Thanks for the great reading on your site, too!<br />http://gizmodo.com/people-are-already-opening-accounts-to-save-for-space-1794712032PAULhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086817305477437518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-23276305222667617372017-04-12T23:08:57.206-07:002017-04-12T23:08:57.206-07:00Paul:
I just noticed your comment. I've had a...Paul:<br /><br />I just noticed your comment. I've had a black-and-white version of this image for a long time. I found a faded and dusty color version buried in a warehouse locker where I work. I scanned it and then spent several hours cleaning it up. It'd be nice if all those folks who've grabbed it from my blog would link back - I suspect I'd get a lot more traffic!<br /><br />David S. F. Portreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818906581595028816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-34123022054707729302017-02-19T15:54:18.100-07:002017-02-19T15:54:18.100-07:00I am wondering about who the artist is who drew th...I am wondering about who the artist is who drew these depictions for this Philco Aeronutronics. The artwork at the top of this entry is used all over the web for various Mars exploration topics, and I'd love to see the artist get credit. Any ideas? Google searches are drying up! Thanks! PAULhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086817305477437518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-78237558383146677572015-09-08T22:05:51.524-07:002015-09-08T22:05:51.524-07:00I'm for a sophisticated variable-G facility th...I'm for a sophisticated variable-G facility that could serve as a long-term lab and a prototype piloted spacecraft. I suspect we're going to either have to go that route or develop speedy propulsion and build up to long stays on any world we visit. That is, get to Mars in a month of micro-G, stay at a base on the surface to amass biomed data and explore, steadily stretch out the surface David S. F. Portreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818906581595028816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-77407284138883722432015-09-08T17:53:47.844-07:002015-09-08T17:53:47.844-07:00I think that's been done - didn't Niven do...I think that's been done - didn't Niven do something like that? Of course, all the old SF set on a clement Mars could be treated as alternate history!<br /><br />dsfpDavid S. F. Portreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818906581595028816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-5578369435849702082015-09-08T11:39:29.770-07:002015-09-08T11:39:29.770-07:00There's probably a lot of alternate space hist...There's probably a lot of alternate space history that could be written around the Martian atmosphere being a tad thicker...Capt Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10262797376576426403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-37025111043645962692015-09-06T00:59:59.393-07:002015-09-06T00:59:59.393-07:00> I won't count us ready to send humans to ...> I won't count us ready to send humans to Mars until we've done research on a variable-gravity space station ...<br /><br />Yeah. We could have done that any time in the past twenty years or so -- nothing too fancy, and nothing permanent, just something temporary on a spinning tether to see how humans and animals respond to 1/6 or 3/8 g. But we didn't.<br /><br />> I also thinkHerp McDerpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-1053141670118384962015-09-05T12:12:12.580-07:002015-09-05T12:12:12.580-07:00Excellent point. We still have a lot of problems t...Excellent point. We still have a lot of problems to solve and there remain a lot of unknowns, glib statements by the likes of Zubrin and Musk notwithstanding. I won't count us ready to send humans to Mars until we've done research on a variable-gravity space station and retrieved Mars surface samples for analysis in Earth labs. I also think it's naive to assume that we can go straightDavid S. F. Portreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818906581595028816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-72516029485869157982015-09-05T11:57:27.239-07:002015-09-05T11:57:27.239-07:00Amazing how just a little bit of correct informat...Amazing how just a little bit of correct information from about Mars changes the whole game between 1960 and 1966 to something that starts to resemble what could be reality someday. Even so until the issue of the actual travel time to Mars is really solved we are still dreaming and ignoring that the near future is really on the Moon just as it was in 1960.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09342961462271564757noreply@blogger.com