Week 9: Space + Art

For our final week of lecture we explored my personally favorite topic, space, and how it can be intertwined with art. Space is an extremely interesting area as very very little of it has been explored,  considering we don't know how large space actually is or if there is even an end to space. Thanks to NASA and recently created SpaceX, we are exploring space as a much more rapid pace with some intentions of finding another habitable planet. 

NASA and SpaceX are leading space companies that have had their rocket ship technologies pushed beyond their limits forcing them to create new ships that are durable enough to last in space. With each trip into space, every rocket ship has to be design specifically for that mission. Space is pushing companies like NASA and SpaceX to redesign and improve their ships to be more durable and cost efficient. The art of rocket ships is very intricate and have been constantly changing over the years. 

Space and has also not only improved the art of rocket ship design but also in the art of film. Movies like Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey have produced new technologies that have been used for decades in order to capture space in film. Star Wars was able to use miniature scale buildings and star ships in order to capture the large scape space fights. 2001: A Space Odyssey create and full scale rotating interior space station to create the effect of the lack of gravity in space. 


  Works Cited

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