Tuesday, 12 February 2008

man conquers space



Man Conquers Space

I think I must have heard something about this before, but I just

(re?)discovered this excellent video teaser for an in-work film called

"Man Conquers Space," an alternate history "documentary" of a greatly

accelerated space program that puts humans on Mars in 1968. It's based

on the plans laid out by Wernher von Braun in the early 1950's in a

series of articles in Collier's Magazine, illustrated with paintings

by Chesley Bonestell. Unfortunately I can't find anything on a release

date for the film - perhaps they are still looking for funding.

Colliers Rocket in Orbiter

In the meantime I will mention again that you can explore this

alternate space program first hand through the great Orbiter add-on

"World of Colliers" by Erik Anderson and John Graves. It may not look

quite as good as the CGI in the movie teaser, but it's available now,

and you can fly 'em yourself.


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