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Spaceship Earth was originally sponsored by the Bell System from 1982 until 1984, [13] [14] when it was broken into smaller companies and its parent company, AT&T, became an independent company. AT&T sponsored Spaceship Earth from 1984 until 2004. From 2005 until 2017, the German company Siemens was the sponsor of Spaceship Earth. As of 2025 ...
A 30 ft (9.1 m) pipe extends from the interior of the house under the berm, cooling the air by the time it gets to the comfort zone. As the hot air rises, the system creates a steady airflow - of cooler air coming in, and warmer air blowing out though a smaller vented window in the greenhouse.
Whether or not this is rightfully being called a spaceship house, it's certainly is one of a kind. And for under $500,000, the price isn't so bad, either. See the listing for more details.
Spaceship Earth at Epcot The Climatron greenhouse at Missouri Botanical Gardens, built in 1960 and designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc., inspired the domes in the science fiction movie Silent Running. Science World in Vancouver, built for Expo 86, and inspired by Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic dome.
According to Fuller biographer Steve Crooks, the house was designed to be delivered in two cylindrical packages, with interior color panels available at local dealers. A circular structure at the top of the house was designed to rotate around a central mast to use natural winds for cooling and air circulation.
The Chemosphere is a modernist house in Los Angeles, California, designed by John Lautner in 1960. The building, which the Encyclopædia Britannica once called "the most modern home built in the world", [1] is admired both for the ingenuity of its solution to the problem of the site and for its unique octagonal design.
Here, we spoke to interior designers about these and other carpet trends that will define 2025. Meet the Expert Alyssa Anselmo , interior architect and founder of Anva Studio
The following year, Spaceship Earth became the title of a book by a friend of Stevenson's, the economist Barbara Ward. [full citation needed] In 1966, Kenneth E. Boulding, who was influenced by reading Henry George's work, [6] used the phrase in the title of his essay, The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth. [7]