#21stt century moon atlas series#
The mesh on the Apollo LRV tire was woven from zinc-coated piano wire, the tread formed from a series of titanium-alloy chevrons and the inner frame comprised of a partly rigid metal "bump stops" to minimize impact damage to the aluminum hub. Historic drawings, documents, photographs and notes taken from files and interviews with Ferenc Pavlic (designer of the original Lunar Rover wheels) and Sam Romano (from the original project team) were studied by the research team to get a feel for the 40-year-old bias ply (a weave of angled wires) technology. As the tires on the original Lunar Rover Vehicle (LRV) performed so well on earlier moon missions, the Goodyear-NASA team started the new design process by going back to school and examining those 81.8cm diameter, 23cm wide tires. NASA asked the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company to help. This left the old non-pneumatic tire design in need of a bit of an overhaul. Unlike the rovers used on the Apollo missions, the new vehicles will be large, heavy and will need to travel over 100 times the distance of the original vehicles. These would be followed by 180-day missions to prepare for journeys to Mars."
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In late 2006 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced: "an incremental buildup would begin with four-person crews making several seven-day visits to the moon until their power supplies, rovers and living quarters are operational. In order to meet the heavy load/long range transport requirements of life on the moon, NASA recently teamed up with Goodyear to review and redesign some 40-year-old technology in the shape of the airless tires first seen on the Lunar Rover Vehicles of Apollo missions. (You can just make out Drago, Scorpio and Andromeda before your head starts to hurt.It looks like seventies science fiction television is (finally) going to meet reality with NASA planning to set up a real Moonbase Alpha by 2020. It is a celestial navigational globe, a rendering made by the Russian navy of the so-called celestial sphere that surrounds the earth, with all relevant stars and constellations articulated, executed in yellow plastic and aluminum and lettered in Cyrillic. “Really, it looks like a kitchen appliance,” he said. But to his eye, the collection’s apogee (to use space lingo) is one that looks as if it doesn’t belong in the same gallery. Despont has plenty of valuable space junk, like an early 17th-century moon atlas. 12.)ĭecades after starting to collect, Mr. Despont and works by two other artists, Manolo Valdés and Claudio Bravo, in lavish 18th- and 19th-century period rooms, opens at a gallery space at 6 Harrison Street in TriBeCa on Nov. (“Cabinet de Curiosités,” a lavish and unusual show, which sets sculptures by Mr. His art-making reflected it, expanding from paintings of imaginary planets to his latest works of fanciful found-object sculptures that imagine what the inhabitants on said planets might look like.
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Or, as he put it, “from first sight to first step.”īut as his moon-gazing progressed, he found himself increasingly drawn away from history and toward fantasy. He collected moon charts and moon models, and books spanning the ages, from Galileo’s time to the 1969 moon landing. He decided to stick closer to home, and focus on the moon. “When you think about everything we know about the universe,” he said, “it’s a bit mind-boggling.” But he found that he couldn’t really see much with it, and so traded it in for a better one. As a teenager growing up in Limoges, France, he asked for and got a telescope. When he was a boy, his favorite adventure of Tintin was the one in which the intrepid youth went to the moon. Despont has dreams of his own, and they aren’t even terrestrial. While being the plutocracy’s favorite manorist is a splendid spot to occupy, Mr. It all seemed to add to his profile as a gentleman architect of another era, offering his clients not just a place to live, but a way to live. He studied drawing in school and began painting and making sculptures a decade or so ago. Since he first studied architecture, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he has been a self-cultivated Renaissance man. Every detail in his TriBeCa offices has been considered and refined to its highest plane, including Mr.
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Despont, 63, has stood atop the short list of America’s great-house architects for nearly 20 years.
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Despont dream them up and execute them on their behalf. A lucky few can afford to have someone like Thierry W. Most of us come up with them and cobble them together ourselves.