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Fuel is mined from Phobos with the help of a nuclear reactor. (Pat Rawlings, 1986) [1] Interior of a Stanford Torus as painted by Don Davis in the 1970s This list of space artists includes artists who produce art and music about space and spaceflight and/or have artwork in space.
Giger's style and thematic execution were influential. He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for their design work on the film Alien. [4] [5] His design for the Alien was inspired by his painting Necronom IV and earned him the Oscar in 1980. His books of paintings, particularly ...
Spacecraft design is a process where systems engineering principles are systemically applied in order to construct complex vehicles for missions involving travel, operation or exploration in outer space. This design process produces the detailed design specifications, schematics, and plans for the spacecraft system, including comprehensive ...
"The Derelict" – the name given to the abandoned alien spacecraft discovered by the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo in the film Alien (1979) [48] Darksyde – The Predacon transwarp ship in the Beast Wars television series. [49] The name was spelled with a y in the Beast Wars video game and in the DVD box set.
Trouvelot, The great nebula in Orion (1875).. Astronomical art is a genre of space art that focuses on visual representations of outer space.It encompasses various themes, including the space environment as a new frontier for humanity, depictions of alien worlds, representations of extreme phenomena like black holes, and artistic concepts inspired by astronomy.
Manifold: Space, Stephen Baxter's novel, starts with the discovery of alien self-replicating machines active within the Solar system. In the Metroid Prime subseries of games, the massive Leviathans are probes routinely sent out from the planet Phaaze to infect other planets with Phazon radiation and eventually turn these planets into clones of ...
A pressure test at about 2/3 of the design burst pressure was completed in November 2016. [43] In July 2017, Musk indicated that the architecture design had evolved since 2016 in order to support commercial transport via Earth-orbit and cislunar launches. [44] 2016 artist's concept of the ITS booster returning to the launch pad
The Zerg alien race in the video game StarCraft traverse space via sentient, organic vessels called "Leviathan". [7] Farscape's Moya is a female Leviathan transport vessel; a living sentient bio-mechanical space ship, who was once captured by the Peacekeepers. She escaped captivity along with the people imprisoned on her by the Peacekeepers.