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Deep Cold

I was born at the beginning of the US-Soviet space race, the year the first man made satellite, Sputnik, went into orbit. Just about any American in their late thirties and up took space for granted. There would always be manned rockets to space. When we were kids, we knew for certain that we'd all end up astronauts, even if that only meant we'd take our family vacations on the moon.

Well, things didn't quite work out that way. But they could have. The US and Soviets could have kept the space race going, sending bigger and more dangerous ships out into the black. The race to the moon was never really about science, but national prestige and military might. If that military posturing had continued through the space age and beyond in an unbroken testosterone chain, what would the space program have looked like?

Deep Cold answers that question with designs for US and Russian space craft and programs that could have been, but never were. Full of nicely rendered images that evoke both nostalgia and fear, Deep Cold is a fascinating visual alternate history of the space age.

And if you’re an astronaut geek, the site has great space program links.

http://www.deepcold.com

Posted by Kadrey at November 22, 2002 01:27 PM

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