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You can find this poster also posted on their twitter page and there is of course a very large version with super cool details on the publication's front page
wifi.midnighttracks.org
Do yourself a favor and do NOT use a mobile phone, use a very large screen with a desktop or at the very least a latop computer.
Voyager 1 resumes sending signal to Earth
Voyager 1, the most distant man-made object in history, has resumed sending signal to the Earth after a gap of five months. On 14 November 2023, It had stopped sending readable science and engineering data to Earth following a glitch in onboard computers even though it was receiving commands from mission control and otherwise operated normally............
SCIEU Team
www.scientificeuropean.co.uk/sciences/space/voyager-1-res...
The illustration depicts a scene from the story in which the Ekkisians are sending their line out for the drifting sphere which they find in interstellar space between Jupiter and their new landing place.
“It seemed that every being on Ekkis was doomed. The plague fixed itself in the blood of the victim, and dried it out until the body withered away to a hideous caricature [Sounds like the plague in “The Andromeda Strain,” Michael Crichton’s 1969 novel]. There was no stopping it. The physicians and scientists of Ekkis were skilled; but they could do nothing. They could neither prevent, cure, nor account for it.
“They said the disease was caused by a strange pathogenic bacterium, which meant nothing at all to the multitudes; that it had come in from far space, which was common supposition; that they had succeeded in isolating the germs, but only to prove them indestructible by any means known on Ekkis . . .
“Alvis, the capital of what was left of Ekkis, had dwindled from 22,000,000 to a few scores of thousands, and the entire population of the planet was not much over a million . . .
“In desperation a final appeal was made to the Science Guild, a body composed of the foremost technical men of Ekkis. Their response: ‘The government can do nothing; the physicians nothing; the people worse than nothing. Their sense warns them that the fate of Ekkis is sealed . . . the only cure is to leave Ekkis; that only those who leave will live . . . It is insufferable that wisdom should perish. We will take our knowledge to some other planet, where it can live on gloriously, even though we perish in the doing, and we must perish, because it is 550 trillion miles to Estoris (Jupiter) in the neighboring Solar System, the nearest planet that offers us any chance of a resting place . . .” [Quoting the story]
“Hounded through space, they held a secret that could set millions free – if only they could stay alive!”
From the back cover:
The world beyond tomorrow the unopened future which lies at a point far distant from the early, fumbling attempts at space flight of our own times.
It is the future of mankind among the stars – but also a future of intrigue and treachery!
This is the setting of “Search the Dark Stars,” A. A. Glynn’s vigorous fantasy of a Galactic civilization which has split against itself and on whose shambles a ruthless warlord of the stars has built a barbaric empire. Persistently striving to topple his autocratic power is the Mutant League, a band of mentally powerful supernormals who style themselves the “inheritors of wisdom and power.”
Enter into this fantastic future in company with the man and the girl who dare to battle against the might of the New Empire – and who hold a guarded, vital secret. Travel with them in their urgent, hunted and hounded flight across the far-flung void of interstellar space and among the myriad worlds of peril of the starways.
“Search the Dark Stars” is a dynamic work of science fiction, a vivid novel of vast scope and swift action.
If your sense of wonder is jaded – try it!
“In this new adventure of Jason Croft, the hero of “Palos of the Dog Star Pack,” he returns once more across the awesome gap of interstellar space, to that glittering planet toward which he was first drawn by his twin-soul and mate.
“Equally as popular as its predecessor, this novel will hold your attention to its last word; it is an outstanding masterpiece that belongs in every fantastic fan’s collection.”
“The Mouthpiece of Zitu” was first published serially in the “All-Story Weekly,” July 5, 1919.
John Ulrich Giesy (1877-1947), who also wrote under the pseudonym Charles Dustin, was an American physician, novelist and author. A medical graduate of Starling Medical College in Columbus, Ohio, he began to contribute stories to the Western Monthly in 1910. He wrote prolifically, being published in many of the magazines of the day.
“PIONEER 11 COURSE TOWARD INTERSTELLAR SPACE”
Probably the most beautiful, creative & striking version 😉 out of hundreds, if not thousands, depicting Pioneer 11’s historic mission and path to infinity…and beyond.
It being an Ames Research Center image, from 1974, of a Pioneer-Jupiter spacecraft, with dynamic ‘space’, I gotta go with Rick Guidice.
Despite the rendering, I'm pretty sure the spacecraft didn't fly between Saturn and its rings. Note also the outline of an unpainted deflection arrow at/behind "SPACE".
“INTERSTELLER”, UGH.
“The Ship Was the Only Home They Had Ever Known . . . Earthmen, in Name Only.”
From the back cover:
It was a proud moment in the earth’s history, when twenty-four dedicated volunteers set off, on that bright summer morning in 1993, to conquer the vastnesses of inter-stellar space. They did not hope to accomplish their Herculean task in the meagre span of human life. It was their descendants who would walk out onto the, as yet undiscovered, planets of the alien stars . . . or so they dreamed.
There were dire perils ahead of them. Damage to their engines, radio-activity the invisible killer, space madness, and the failure of the life giving hydroponic tanks which supplied their oxygen. Yet the worst enemy of all was the enemy within themselves. The human failure of men and women, locked in the close confines of the Star Ship.
Then there was the Alien Ship . . . Friend or foe? . . . Saviour or destroyer? “Space-Borne” is an authentic and sophisticated thriller from that master of Science Fiction, R. Lionel Fanthorpe, the well-known schoolmaster author.
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Badger Books were published between 1959 and 1967 in a number of genres, predominantly war, westerns, romance, supernatural and science fiction. In common with other “pulp” or mass-market publishers of the time, Badger Books focused on quantity rather than quality. A new title in each of the major genres appeared each month, generally written to tight deadlines by low-paid authors. One of the most remarkable facts about Badger Books is that much of its output was produced by just two authors (using a range of house names and other pseudonyms). John Glasby (over 300 novels and short stories) and Robert Lionel Fanthorpe (over 200 novels and stories). [Wikipedia]
Space Engine : SRWE Hotsampling @ In-game Free Camera Mode (freecam, fov, timestop and exposure, 32xMSAA, Mods)
Before Juno, New Horizons (when it zoomed by), before Galileo...EVEN BEFORE Voyager, there were Pioneers...10 & 11...first to Jupiter.
Beautiful EARLY (1969?) depiction by resident TRW artist/Art Director Frank Warren, of the intrepid little spacecraft at its destination.
Until 17 February 1998, it was the most distant spacecraft from the Sun. On that day, at the mind-boggling distance of 69.419 AU, Voyager 1 overtook it...so Voyager is seriously hauling ass...it was launched FIVE years after Pioneer 10. Voyager 1 is in fact moving away from the Sun at over 1 AU/year faster than Pioneer 10.
Last contact with Pioneer 10 was in 2003.
Interesting reading, especially WRT the primary mission of the spacecraft. Really???
airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/nasm-nasm-7b24156jpg
Additional informative reading:
www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/Pioneer_10_40th_Anni...
Last, but NOT least, Frank Warren...remembered:
www.independent.com/obits/2017/09/18/frank-warren/
Credit: Santa Barbara Independent website
NASA's Voyager has experienced more "tsunami waves" from the sun -- the same kind that led to the realization last year that the spacecraft had entered interstellar space. Full story: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-221
Hayden Planetarium
Upper West Side, New York, NY
Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra, The Sage, Gateshead, March 2010
Anthony Joseph, vocals; Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra, The Sage, Gateshead, March 2010
Harry Brown, trombone; Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra, The Sage, Gateshead, March 2010
Robin Hopcraft, trumpet; Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra, The Sage, Gateshead, March 2010
Anthony Joseph, vocals; Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra, The Sage, Gateshead, March 2010
Larry Stabbins, tenor, and Robin Hopcraft, trumpet; Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra, The Sage, Gateshead, March 2010
Nathaniel Facey, alto, Patrick Illingworth, drums, Denys Baptiste, tenor, Crispin Robinson or Steve Gibson, percussion, Ollie Bayley, electric bass, and Larry Stabbins, tenor; Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra, The Sage, Gateshead, March 2010
Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra, The Sage, Gateshead, March 2010
