SPACE ENGINEER

Toroidal Colonies

Three space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. Population: 10,000 

Credit: NASA Ames Research Center

Golden Record 

The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University, et. al. Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim.

"The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet."

Guide to Private Space Flight Destinations

Spacecraft of the World 

Demonstrates the different vehicle sections of each module and how many passengers would fit inside a very limited volume of space to scale.

Manned Orbital Spacecraft

Rockets of human spaceflight with their respective nozzle configurations

Rockets of the world to scale

From smallest to largest. Don’t forget upper left corner shows an ice cream truck to scale. Note: Not all rockets of the world are included but most of them are.