Week 9

There really is no better way to finish the year then with the topic of space.  With robots, nanotechnology, nanoscience, math, biotech, and most importantly art, space incorporates everything that we have gone over throughout the year.  The thing I found most interesting about space and art was that space was portrayed through art before any human actually had been there.  As I learned last week art is giving us new ways of exploring space, through the space elevator and even space hotels.

1969 was the year that the first man stepped foot on the moon .  But by then many different TV shows and movies were already made about space.  TV shows such as Star Trek and the Jetsons and movies such as twelve to the moon and battle in outer space.  While these shows may have influenced the beginning of the “space age”, the “space age” influenced many more works of art.  Works such as E.T. Alien, Star Trek, and Superman followed the moon landing.  These works have art have used the information they found out about space, and then putting in more fictional information.  This made up information makes the world wonders if what are in these movies true.

Space has inspired many people in creating their art, such as Alan Bean.  Alan Bean was the 4^th man to walk on the moon (Foust).  He now has been inspired by that trip and is recreating the moon through his art.  

The space elevator was an idea in Arthur Clark’s The Fountain of Paradise before it was an idea of NASA and the scientists today (Horton).  Art today has made possible the idea of a space hotel.  The Russians have developed a space hotel sitting 250 miles above Earth (Lam).  This project is amazing, who would have thought that regular humans could spend a week vacationing in space instead of the Bahamas.   

  

Movies such as star trek today really have me excited about the future of space.  I really hope that one-day space travel will be available to all people.  Going to space, even for 5 seconds is number one on my bucket list.  I know that art is going to help this happen in the future.  

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