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BrickMoonMcCurdy-Spiral |
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Title
Brick Moon Space Station Concept
Full Description
This is an artist's impression of the "Brick Moon." "The Brick
Moon" was the title of an article published in the Atlantic
Monthly by Edward Everett Hale in 1869. This piece was the first
known proposal for an Earth-orbiting satellite. Hale envisioned
that the satellite could be used by mariners as a navigational
aid. He believed it would be the longitudinal companion to the
latitudinal North Star. In 1869, this story was considered
fantasy but in retrospect "The Brick Moon" foreshadowed the need
for a space station and some of its technologies.
Keywords
Brick Moon space station concepts art
Subject Category
Space-Station Concepts,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
HQ
- Center Number:
BrickMoonMcCurdy-Spiral
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2003-00098
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: Digital
| Resolution | Format | Width
(Pixels) | Height
(Pixels) | Size
(KBytes) |
Thumbnail |
JPEG |
169 |
135 |
29 |
Small |
JPEG |
1352 |
1080 |
1,173 |
Medium |
JPEG |
2817 |
2250 |
5,330 |
Large |
JPEG |
5633 |
4500 |
25,383 |
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