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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