Gallery of 2009 NSS Space Settlement Art Contest
All art on these pages is copyrighted by the individual artists and may not be used without the artist’s specific permission.
The following images have been accepted by the NSS Space Settlement Calendar Committee as entries in the NSS Space Settlement 2009 Calendar Art Contest based on the contest’s submission requirements. Entries were judged by the NSS panel of art contest judges.
Click on a thumbnail image for a larger image and descriptive text. Entires marked with an asterisk are re-submitted from the 2008 Calendar contest.
Grand Prize Winning entry

GRAND PRIZE
After the Storm
Raymond Cassel
First Place Entries

FIRST PLACE ORBITAL
O’Neill Style Cylinder Colony Orbiting Mars
Goetz Scheuermann

FIRST PLACE MOON
The Lunar Greenhouse
Jonathan Chapin

FIRST PLACE MARS
Martian Evening
Timothy Hodge

FIRST PLACE ASTEROID
Asteroid Mining for Station Creation
Bryan Versteeg
Additional Winning Entries

Lover’s Lookout
Phil Batchelor

Luna
Joe Vinton

Moonbase One
Alex Aurichio

Art Exhibition on Mars
Richard Bizley

Mars 3009
Joe Vinton

In Jupiter’s Realm
Raymond Cassel

Prospectors
Joe Vinton
Orbital Space Settlement Contest Entries

Urban Renewal
Raymond Cassel

Room with a View
Carl Brown

Lunch Break
Carl Brown

Engineering the Future*
Alex Aurichio

Return to Star City
Bill Wright

Space Colony
Pablo Montero Gustavo Sureda

Asteroid
Eliana De Melio

Space Colony in Saturn Orbit
Leticia Dominguez

Gravity Zero
Pablo Montero Gustavo Sureda

The Aldrin Space Settlement
Bill Wright

Solaris City
Bill Wright

Terrarius
Bill Wright

Terraston Orbital
Mark Gearhart

Postcard from Mars – Transport
Phil Batchelor

Spacehawks*
Reimund Bertrams

Orbital Station NSS New Dawn
Maylock Stansbury

Quest Orbital Services
Bill Wright

Families in Space*
Alex Aurichio

Jump Start Halo
Dan Thole

Pioneers of The High Frontier
Phil Batchelor

Postcard from Mars – Arrival
Phil Batchelor

Postcard from Mars – Economics
Phil Batchelor

Postcard from Mars – At the Farm
Phil Batchelor

Careers in Orbit
Phil Batchelor
Moon Settlement Contest Entries

Uruguayan Lunar Base
German Corbalan

Lunar Base Design Lab
Thiago Ceballos

Halley’s Comet 2062
Bill Wright

Tycho Settlement
Roger Klump

Smythii Crossing
Geir Lanesskog

Tranquility Base Memorial Center
Bill Wright

Archimedes Settlement
Mark Gearhart

Lunar Zen Garden*
Ayako Ono

Moonbase Texceros
Dan Thole

Star Merchant
Bill Wright

A Little Bit of Home*
Walter Myers

He3 Moon Base Mining Facility
Richard Kurbis

Moon Settlement Viaduct*
Reimund Bertrams

Eden Crater*
Alex Aurichio
Mars Settlement Contest Entries

BiodiversCity*
Daniel Rollitt

A Place Called Eden*
Bill Wright

Tharsis Settlement
Geir Lanesskog

Life on Mars
Philip Kalvan

Storm Front
Carl Brown

The Lava Tube
Raymond Cassel

Mars Land Rush
Alex Aurichio

Landing at Sagan City
Bill Wright

Sagan City and the Greening of Mars
Bill Wright

Mars Colony 1 “After the Storm”
Maylock Stansbury

Settlement Construction
Bryan Versteeg
Asteroid Contest Entries

Tomorrow*
Murphy Elliott

Outpost 12
Murphy Elliott

Asteroid City
Murphy Elliott

Nysa Colony
Roger Klump

Closest Approach
Jonathan Chapin

Tetherball
William Wood

Gaspra Mining Settlement
Bill Wright

Asteroid Mining*
Alex Aurichio
NSS 2009 Space Settlement Calendar Art Contest info