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The glorious space age has come and gone. So what now? What's next? To go further, to go faster, we must take the next step. Space is still full of mystery and challenges humankind as much as ever. Ideas on what the next step is, or steps are, vary greatly and there is no shortage of concepts for the future of space transportation. Concepts include new engines, new strategies, harnessing gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear energy and more. This book will take you on a guided visual tour of the future of space transportation. From Earth to Orbit to In-Space transportation, you will sample what is being considered and get an easy-to-understand explanation of what the spacecraft will do and how it will work.
This book is the culmination of years of work with NASA and hours of interviews with leading propusion scientists and aerospace innovators.
Decades ago Dr. Wernher von Braun teamed with Walt Disney to animate a mission to Mars and inspired a generation. Today multimedia, animation and video serve a similar communications need. The CD-ROM included contains official NASA videos, vehicle concept animation, and dynamic multimedia. View spacecraft concepts in 3D, see mission animation and hear first hand what the visionaries of the aerospace industry hope to accomplish.
This book is the culmination of years of work with NASA and hours of interviews with leading propusion scientists and aerospace innovators.
Decades ago Dr. Wernher von Braun teamed with Walt Disney to animate a mission to Mars and inspired a generation. Today multimedia, animation and video serve a similar communications need. The CD-ROM included contains official NASA videos, vehicle concept animation, and dynamic multimedia. View spacecraft concepts in 3D, see mission animation and hear first hand what the visionaries of the aerospace industry hope to accomplish.
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Born in the Rocket City in the mid 1960’s, Tim McElyea experienced the wonder of the space age first hand. In the 1960’s Huntsville Alabama was a flurry of space activity with engine tests, a space museum, rocket parks, and ticker tape parades for astronauts. This early fascination has never stopped.
He earned an Art degree from University of Alabama in Huntsville and began to explore the computer as a new medium. Having exhibited his fine art prints, drawings, and sculpture for years nationwide, he was ready for a new canvas. Computer animation and multimedia proved to be a perfect venue. After working as the Director of Animation and Multimedia for Intergraph Corporation he decided to take the next step. In 1995 he founded Media Fusion, Inc. to be a studio where companies and organizations could come to for artful communication media.
Early on, Media Fusion set its sights on NASA. In 1997 it won a contract to create a multimedia CD for the X-34 space plane. This turned out to be the beginning of a rich relationship with NASA. Today Media Fusion provides Marshall Space Flight Center with multimedia, animation, and creative services. As the lead propulsion center for NASA, Marshall is at the leading edge of space transportation and Media Fusion creates the high profile imagery and media that NASA uses to communicate the future of space transportation.
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