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Steve O B Have

Steve O B Have
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Geraldine

Geraldine
To Steve O B Have

Steve O B Have said:
Going back a really long way now - right back to my childhood when I found a book in the local library called "Terran Trade Authority - Spacecraft 2000-2100 AD" and got completely lost in the illustrations and stories behind them.
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Steve, going through the vast number of previous posts, I came upon this one you made.

It got me thinking, that perhaps in the very early 80s I happened upon one of these books too. If you have them, could you tell me if there was a picture of a crashed ship on a barren moon with a ghostly astronaut standing next to it? Also in the same book a picture of an alien derelict found at the rim of the galaxy. If its the same books as I saw then, I thought they were amazing.
 

Steve O B Have

Steve O B Have
Hi

These are the closest ones that I can think of from that series:
Source: http://www.bisbos.com/rocketscience/tta/
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TTA said:
In addition there is unrefutable evidence that there are others. This much is indicated for instance by the object found by an Alpha survey team on a small planet in the Barnard's Star group. It is a complete ship and appears to be undamaged, though there is no sign of any crew it might have had.

Although visually clearly defined in every detail it is semi-transparent and solid objects can pass through it. Instruments indicate that the precise space that the object occupies is measurably denser than the surrounding atmosphere, unlike a holographic projection. There also appears to be a variety of radio emissions emanating from it, but attempts to identify the signals have been unsuccesful. The image is constant in all atmospheric conditions and has remained unchanged since its discovery over seventy years ago.
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Early in 2088 a Perimeter Beacon in the Proxima system signalled the approach of an artificial object that refused to acknowledge requests for identification, and two security ships were dispatched to investigate. Within a few hours they had made visual contact and it was immediately apparent that the ship did not originate from known space . It was an enormous construction which dwarfed the Proximan craft and was obviously designed to carry living beings of some kind. That parts of the interior were illuminated could be seen through the hundreds of apertures in the hull, but none of the Proximan's various signals were answered in any way. It was decided that the alien vessel was either empty or disabled as its course would take it into the sun.

Assistance was called for and when it arrived lines were attached and the craft towed into a stationary orbit round Proxima One. It was certainly a bizarre object, made more so by its prodigious size, and unlike any spacecraft ever seen. Scientific teams from all three systems set up temporary research stations to study it and to attempt communication with any passengers it may have had. When all attempts failed it was decided to force entry, upon which the craft was found to be entirely deserted. That it had been equipped for life forms of some kind was easily determined from the nature of the internal fittings and equipment, but whatever these beings were like, it is doubtful that they were humanoid.
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Geraldine

Geraldine
Hi Steve
Those are not the pictures I recall from the book I saw, but the title did have those dates in it, so it must have been another part of the series. I am amazed that these images can still install wonder and fire up 30+ year old memories of me sitting in my school library flicking through the pages, while I was supposed to be doing maths :D Another image I recall was of a giant parallelogram shaped freighter hanging above a city, partly lost in cloud cover. Great pictures Steve and thanks for posting them :)
 

Magma

Magma
These remind me a lot of the original Maplin catalogue - The one that had the massive spaceship on the front cover. Nowadays I doubt they could get away with it on the cover as they never actually sold it :)

I can't find a picture of it anywhere on the internet though. If anyone has one, be a good chap and scan it into the relevant section of the Maplin article on Wikipedia, would you? :p
 
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