About Generation Ship Interior
In 1975 a NASA Ames summer study asked what it would take to live permanently off Earth, and answered with a spinning ring. Don Davis and Rick Guidice painted the inside of it in oil: hardwood decking, farm terraces climbing a curved floor, and light fed down through louvred mirrors.
This system takes that record literally. The ground is dusk-phase timber, the light is lamp-warm and directional, and every surface has been walked on by people who were born aboard. Nothing here is chrome, and nothing glows blue.
- Origin
- United States aerospace design culture
- Era
- 1975 onward (NASA Ames/Stanford summer study; NASA SP-413 published 1977)
- Key figures
- Gerard K. O'Neill · Don Davis · Rick Guidice · Richard D. Johnson
- Movements
- Space settlement design · 1970s NASA technical illustration · High-modernist infrastructure graphics
Generation Ship Interior design spec
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Typography
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