Get the 2008 Space Settlement Calendar
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The following images were accepted by the NSS Space Settlement Calendar Committee as entries in the 2008 NSS Space Settlement Calendar Art Contest.
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Grand Prize Winning entry
The Return to Abalakin
Alexander Preuss
Category: Orbital Settlements
First Place Entries
Orbital:
Islands of the Gods
Richard Bizley
Moon:
Moonbase Preparations
Warren Turner
Mars:
Mars from a Young Perspective
Javier Arizabalo
Asteroid:
Asteroid Settlement Slingshot to the Galaxy
Chee Ming Wong
Additional Winning Entries
Inside Orbital City
Murphy Elliott
Orbital Category
The Soaring Arena
Bill Wright
Lunar Category
Descent Into the Dark Side
Raymond Cassel
Lunar Category
Second Outpost
Janek Kozicki
Mars Category
Mars Gardens
Alex Aurichio
Mars Category
Mining Settlement on 90 Antiope
Walter Myers
Asteroid Category
City Under Glass
Raymond Cassel
Asteroid Category
Other entries
Orbital Space Settlement Contest Entries
Spacehawks
Reimund Bertrams
Families in Space
Alex Aurichio
Mars Orbital Processing Station
Steve Munsinger
Imitating the Earth
Javier Arizabalo
Stanford Torus
Joe Strout
Lunar Shuttle T-32
Bill Wright
Engineering the Future
Alex Aurichio
Quito Alto
Geir Lanesskog
Construction Site
Carl Brown
Vertigo
Geir Lanesskog
O’Neill Colony: Lagrange Point 5
Richard Bartrop
Mars Orbital Stations
Leonardo Ceballos
Port Gossamer
William Wood
Red Harbor
William Wood
Moon Settlement Contest Entries
Aquarius One
Alex Aurichio
Aldrin/Collins Station, Lunar South Pole
Steve Munsinger
Moon Scene
Geir Lanesskog
Eden Crater
Alex Aurichio
Prometheus One
Alex Aurichio
Higherway
William Wood
On Approach To New Wapakoneta
Joe Bruce
Moonbase “Apollo”
Bill Wright
Montes Apenninus Encampment MA-1 Flyover
C.Wm. House
Oxygen Gulch
William Wood
Moon Settlement Viaduct
Reimund Bertrams
Griffin Lunar Research Center
Bill Wright
A Little Bit of Home
Walter Myers
Lunar Zen Garden
Ayako Ono
Skylight of the Universe
Alfred Twu
Mars Settlement Contest Entries
Mars 2500 C.E:
Space Port
Kristin Medin
Chaos 1
Joanna Kozicka
Chaos 2
Joanna Kozicka
Cliff
Joanna Kozicka
Cliff-close
Joanna Kozicka
Crater
Joanna Kozicka
Steep Cliff
Joanna Kozicka
Deployment
Janek Kozicki
Mars Scene
Geir Lanesskog
Biodome City
(two versions)
Daniel Rollitt
A Place Called Eden
Bill Wright
R and R on Mars
Bill Wright
Mars One Settlement
Kyle Ronan
Martian Pioneers
Walter Myers
A Day in the Life of a Martian Family
Kristin Medin
Asteroid Contest Entries
Starships and Asteroid Settlement
Thomas Nackid
Resuplication
C.Wm. House
Phobos Base
C.Wm. House
Asteroid Mining
Alex Aurichio
Settlement Ida
Steve Munsinger
Tomorrow
Murphy Elliott
Mining the Twins
Geir Lanesskog
Argosy
Bill Wright
Stoners Rock
William Wood
Jovian Asteroid Diversion Project
Carl Brown
Utopia One
Geir Lanesskog
Cable Runner
Karl Johanson
Asteroid Colony
Hannu Parviainen
Asteroid Colony
Close View
Hannu Parviainen
Muir II Mobile Astrobiology Station
Jon Lyons