Retro https://refractor.io/tag/retro/ Retro en-AU Wed, 27 Jul 2016 23:13:55 GMT In pictures: Gorgeous space station concepts from the 1970s https://refractor.io/space/in-pictures-gorgeous-space-station-concepts-from-the-1970s/ The archetypal space colony image? Don Davis' depiction of a Stanford torus space station

Those of a certain age and a certain bent can't fail to look at this beautiful depiction of the interior of a space station without a sense of nostalgia. Because, though Don Davis (in this case) depicts a presumably far-future vision of human space colonies, the art itself is very much of its time: the 1970s.

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]]> Wed, 27 Jul 2016 23:13:55 GMT https://refractor.io/space/in-pictures-gorgeous-space-station-concepts-from-the-1970s/ James Holloway