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Back in the fifties and sixties, millions of families eagerly followed the early days of space exploration in amazement as they remained glued to their radios and TV's, awaiting the tiniest of news snippets to arrive from space. Those days appear to be gone, as the only news today seems to be about crime, terrorism, war and dirty politics. With this image, I wanted to capture that spirit of wonder and adventure of space exploration that touched so many so long ago. I also want to honor all the visionaries and brave astronauts that dedicated their lives to the peaceful exploration of the final frontier.
Comments (38)
BigDen
Reminds me of the old youth stories by RAH. Good work
eyeland
Nice work - great sense of scale. Unfortunately, though there has been significant scientific benefit from space exploration, there has been little obvious impact on the average person - no space colonies, no vacations in space (except for multi-millionaires), no skies filled with space transports. So the romance & adventure of space travel is still pretty much confined to sci-fi...
cujoe_da_man
ooo, much more detailed than the one i built, I like it
Lown
Great lighting, awesome scale and about 10,000 people(how did you do That???:-) Exellent pic!!!!!
mylemonblue
Some still look skyward and know it's our future. All our eggs are in one basket here. Our future may depend on putting more than just a few good people into space. Magnificent render. ^_^
Revelation-23
I bet if NASA had somethign this big (I could be wrong, but aren't the current shuttles and rockets smaller than this), it might draw some more people out. The prospect of an outpost on the moon and a possible trip to Mars in coming years could rekindle people's interest in the skies above and beyond us. Are there any kids in the crowd, up past thei bedtimes, sitting on their parents' shoulders?
lofty9999
awwww daddy...i wan wanna those!! cool image , very well done
steve100
Fantastic image, and with so many people. Very well done.
sackrat
Well done ! Excellent render. I would have to disagree with eyeland,.......there have been many benefits from space exploration, from the mundane, like Tang, Nomex(flame retardant fabric) and Velcro(all developed for the space program)to communications satellites, agricultural sats, GPS and so on. They're just not the sexy stuff we thought we would have by now(Like flying cars, I want my flying car !).
pakled
When Worlds Collide, you'll see things like this..;) great pic.
waldotim
An absolutely amazing image, and a sentiment I share. The politics of the fifties and sixties were no less dirty and vitriolic than todays' (McCarthy or Nixon, anyone?), it just seems we can no longer rise above them. Very sad, but your image is inspiring.
RainbowGypsy
Wow...this is absoultely stunning...
max-
Yes, the politics were also dirty 45 yrs ago, however, today there seems to be nothing else but bad news. There's nothing positive to grab on to, nothing good to look forward to, and no excitement for a bright future.
gerberc
Absolutely stunning image!!
Makena
WOW amazing...
duo
This space age image is fantastic! The kind of image that I love! BRAVO, a 10!!!!
CrimsonDesire
Breathtakeing with the rocket rising majesticly over the crowd lit by winking lights, incredible render ^^
AeroJett
It's nice to see a beacon of hope once in a while for space exploration. Hopefully something will spark again with my generation, though from what I've seen aroud my school that thought is almost laughable.
skiwillgee
Great sense of scale and great crowd. I also disagree with eyeland, "outlast" a thermal product found in winter garments, gloves, etc..was a NASA product for space suits.
MarkHirst
Reminds me of the movie, "When Worlds Collide".
TheBryster
A little dark on my monitor but it looks awesome anyway!
max-
On my internet monitor it also looks too dark, but that's only because I have this monitor set to darker due to eye strain. I've seen people run their monitors either too bright or too dark, which makes it impossible to please everyone, so I just set all my images to my reference grayscale calibration on my studio monitor. There's an easy way to do that on any monitor... just look at a simple grayscale bar chart that goes from black to white in small steps, and adjust your brightness so all the grays are visible.
IO4
Wow! Stunning work. There's just so much detail and the sense of scale is amazing.
Vile
great image and message!
garryts
Excellent image with a great retro look... Well done!
airflamesred
Excellent work
wawadave
you captured it well!!
alexclark
Amazing image and sense of scale. I watched a shuttle launch once - we weren't allowed to get that close though. Something to do with the heat i think...
Eugenius
Wonderful image a with lots of details. Awesome job!
Doublecrash
Beautifully done. The scale is impressive, the crowd too. Congrats.