2001 space station

For the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey," filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and three production designers (one of them from NASA) created a stunning vision of what man's future in space might look like. In this space-station hotel orbiting the Earth, bright red Djinn chairs designed by Olivier Mourgue in 1964 are so striking they almost upstage the actors. The film won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction, and its designs still look futuristic 55 years later. #2001aspaceodyssey #stanleykubrick…

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The beautiful space art of Jack Coggins from the book Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles & Space Ships

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Here are some more images of my scratch built model of Space Station Five from 2001 A Space Odyssey. The materials I used for this model were a 4'x8' sheet of 1mm styrene plastic, 1/2 inch PVC electrical pipe (this is what determined its size), the windows are from a coil book binder punch and various types of sheet and strip styrene for structure and detail. At the time when I built this model there were (or at least I don’t think there were) really any reliable blueprints of this model…

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Beautiful Peter Elson artwork for the 1976 Arrow Books reprint of 2001 A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968

IN JULY, 1968, a few months after Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey opened in theaters, Signet Books published a mass-market paperback edition of Arthur C. Clarke's fix-up novel (the book was actually developed concurrently with the film version). On the cover was a photo-still of actor Keir Dullea (as astronaut Dr. Dave Bowman) staring out through his helmet visor. At the center of the book were sixteen pages of black & white photo-stills, captured from the movie. On the back…