Alan Baker

@aebdigital.bsky.social

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European, Systems Engineer and sometime space artist. INCOSE and IAAA member. Economic migrant. Spricht wie ein Österreicher.

CGI image of a large futuristic spaceplane landing on a runway in heavy rain.
A spaceship firing its engines receeds into the black.
CGI of an Extended LOK above the moon, in lunar orbit entry configuration.
CD box set of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Poster featuring Earth and one of their spaceships from The Expanse.
Jinx, a habitable moon of Binary (aka Primary), a gas giant orbiting Sirius-A from Larry Niven's "Known Space" stories. Tidal forces formed Jinx so it's longer on one axis, meaning the ends lift above the atmosphere, whilst the central belt experiences Venus-style atmospheric pressures.
Screenshot from Star City, showing mission Luna 17, with a modified LOK and LK.
CGI image of a Gagarin class cruiser and an older Comet class starship in orbit above an icy planet.
A white mug featuring a custom mission patch for the Nomad space probe, as seen in the Star Trek episode “The Changeling”.
Front cover of Natasha Pulley’s book “The Mars House”.
An image of European, American, and Soviet rockets from my alternate history timeline "Kolyma's Shadow".
A pseudo-scientific word salad posted as a comment on some art.
The Starship Enterprise refit/A.
An N-1 rocket on the launch pad at night.
A large rover driving across the sands of Mars.
Screenshot from Frontier: Elite II
N-1 rocket launching, from Apple TV’s “Star City”.
CGI render of a cubical planet.
Cutaway diagram of N1F moon rocket, showing lots and lots of pipes.
My Sisyphean task, starting to knit a very long scarf. Again.
A group of spaceships from “Wing Commander” in front of a green nebula. Fighter models by Klavs.
MCRN Donnager, a spaceship from "The Expanse", with Jupiter and its moons Ganymede and Europa in the background.
Render of a Soviet cosmonaut transfering from a LOK moonship to an LK lander, in orbit above the moon.
A moon shattering around a warm pink planet.
CGI of HOTOL spaceplane over Earth.
The sun rising over the limb of the earth in low earth orbit. A shuttle derived space station is in the foreground.
A large cylindrical spaceship with wing-like radiators collecting ice above the rings of Saturn.
A large spaceship in orbit above the yellow clouds of Titan.
Digital painting of the Fourth Doctor and Leela in front of the TARDIS.
Opening scene of Transformers The Movie, the planet Unicron with a red star in the background, while an ominous, thumping soundtrack plays.
A damaged Earth Minotaur fighter hiding from Romulan ships on the surface of a comet.
An infographic cutaway of N-1 rocket vehicle 8L, from an alternate timeline where it was successfully launched and put an uncrewed LK lander on the moon.
Soviet LK lander and crasher stage in space above the moon.
A copy of Spaceflight magazine from 2012, showing an artist’s impression of Boeing’s crew capsule.
CGI image of a rocket launch.
CGI image of an N-1 rocket on the pad.
LK lander being extracted from its shroud after the cosmonaut has spacewalked from the LOK orbiter. This is an older render, which incorrectly shows the “crasher stage” booster on the LK as an enclosed cylinder instead of a collection of tanks and trusses.
Knitting samples
Illustration of Larry Niven’s Ringword, showing no understanding of scale or spin gravity.
Spaceship “Her Mercy’s Reach” hovering over water.
Dylan Moran as Bernard Black, a wine-soaked anti-social book shop owner.
A modular cargo spaceship from Satr Cops.
A map of the world of the Belgariad.
A cargo lander from “Eyes Turned Skywards”.
A mostly complete 1980s Lego moon base.
Sketch of an N-1 launched shuttle on the pad.
A small modular spaceship in Earth orbit.
A dark brown 4th Doctor velvet frock coat hanging against the door.
Comic book style Captain John Harriman from Star Trek: Generations, saying his catchphrase: Tuesday!
The starship Enterprise-E in front of planets and a pinkish nebula.
A cluttered office desk in the late 1990s.
A space station in front of an orbital sunset.
Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant as the Sixth Doctor and Peri. Unlike in most of the show, they are clearly enjoying one another’s company.