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Here's What NASA's Vision For The Future Looked Like In 1975

When we think about future space colonies, images of large, rotating, sphere-shaped spacecraft with artificial gravity come to mind. These visualizations are not random — they have been presented by ...
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In 1975, NASA carried killifish into orbit; the weightless fish began swimming in loops, yet their embryos developed without detectable abnormalities

In July 1975, NASA sent a much smaller crew into orbit alongside the astronauts and cosmonauts of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: a group of killifish meant to help explain why the human body struggles ...
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Space oddity: NASA’s retro guide to future living

It’s early evening and you’re with friends, enjoying a drink or two. The sun is shining after all and it’s been a long week. The river nearby shimmers in the light. You follow its course, your eyes ...
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Campaign To Reissue NASA’s 1975 ‘Worm’ Manual Surpasses Kickstarter Goal on First Day

The cover of the original NASA Manual, an 8.5 x 11 ring bound folder. Updated at 5:02 p.m. WASHINGTON — A Kickstarter campaign to reissue the 1975 graphics standards manual that guided NASA’s ...
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Nasa carried a pocket calculator on Apollo-Soyuz in 1975 as a backup for rendezvous calculations; 37 years later, it reached the Smithsonian

In 1975, Nasa sent an unusual piece of technology into orbit: a pocket-sized Hewlett-Packard HP-65 programmable calculator carried aboard the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. It was not the spacecraft’s ...