The following images were accepted by the NSS Space Settlement Calendar Committee as entries in the 2008 NSS Space Settlement Calendar Art Contest.
Click on a thumbnail image for a larger image and descriptive text. See also the 2009 Calendar Contest Gallery.
Winning Entries
Grand Prize |
The Return to Abalakin
Alexander Preuss
Category: Orbital Settlements
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Orbital |
Moon |
Mars |
Asteroid |
1st Place
Islands of the Gods
Richard Bizley |
1st Place
Moonbase Preparations
Warren Turner |
1st Place
Mars from a Young Perspective
Javier Arizabalo |
1st Place
Asteroid Settlement: Slingshot to the Galaxy
Chee Ming Wong |
Inside Orbital City
Murphy Elliott
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The Soaring Arena
Bill Wright
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Second Outpost
Janek Kozicki
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Mining Settlement on 90 Antiope
Walter Myers |
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Descent Into the Dark Side
Raymond Cassel
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Mars Gardens
Alex Aurichio
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City Under Glass
Raymond Cassel |
Other entries
Orbital |
Moon |
Mars |
Asteroid |
Spacehawks
Reimund Bertrams |
Aquarius One
Alex Aurichio |
Mars 2500 C.E:
Space Port
Kristin Medin |
Starships and Asteroid Settlement
Thomas Nackid |
Families in Space
Alex Aurichio
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Aldrin/Collins Station, Lunar South Pole
Steve Munsinger
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Chaos 1
Joanna Kozicka
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Resuplication
C.Wm. House |
Mars Orbital Processing Station
Steve Munsinger
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Moon Scene
Geir Lanesskog
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Chaos 2
Joanna Kozicka
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Phobos Base
C.Wm. House |
Imitating the Earth
Javier Arizabalo
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Eden Crater
Alex Aurichio |
Cliff
Joanna Kozicka
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Asteroid Mining
Alex Aurichio |
Stanford Torus
Joe Strout
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Prometheus One
Alex Aurichio
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Cliff-close
Joanna Kozicka
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Settlement Ida
Steve Munsinger |
Lunar Shuttle T-32
Bill Wright
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Higherway
William Wood
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Crater
Joanna Kozicka
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Tomorrow
Murphy Elliott |
Engineering the Future
Alex Aurichio
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On Approach To New Wapakoneta
Joe Bruce
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Steep Cliff
Joanna Kozicka
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Mining the Twins
Geir Lanesskog |
Quito Alto
Geir Lanesskog
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Moonbase "Apollo"
Bill Wright
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Deployment
Janek Kozicki
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Argosy
Bill Wright |
Construction Site
Carl Brown
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Montes Apenninus Encampment MA-1 Flyover
C.Wm. House
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Mars Scene
Geir Lanesskog
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Stoners Rock
William Wood
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Vertigo
Geir Lanesskog
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Oxygen Gulch
William Wood
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Biodome City
(two versions)
Daniel Rollitt
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Jovian Asteroid Diversion Project
Carl Brown
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O'Neill Colony: Lagrange Point 5
Richard Bartrop
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Moon Settlement Viaduct
Reimund Bertrams
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A Place Called Eden
Bill Wright
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Utopia One
Geir Lanesskog |
Mars Orbital Stations
Leonardo Ceballos
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Griffin Lunar Research Center
Bill Wright
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R and R on Mars
Bill Wright
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Cable Runner
Karl Johanson |
Port Gossamer
William Wood
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A Little Bit of Home
Walter Myers
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Mars One Settlement
Kyle Ronan
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Asteroid Colony
Hannu Parviainen |
Red Harbor
William Wood
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Lunar Zen Garden
Ayako Ono
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Martian Pioneers
Walter Myers
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Asteroid Colony
Close View
Hannu Parviainen
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Skylight of the Universe
Alfred Twu
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A Day in the Life of a Martian Family
Kristin Medin
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Muir II Mobile Astrobiology Station
Jon Lyons
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