Manifesto on Futurist Spacecraft Design by Yuri and Jelena Tchechenko - January, 1977 (Translated from Russian by Dr. Enzo Montazzoli at the Luigi Russolo Institute in Milan, Italy.) Spacecraft design has become mired in the mundanity of function and economy. Science, and the aparati of technology, should be inspiring spacecraft designers to radically and violently express the synthetic, powerful, and dynamic qualities of these extensions of ourselves we hurl into the cosmos. Yes, spacecraft must be functional tools of science. But they should also be awe-inspiring in form, emissaries of the great futurist revolution passed on to us by our forefathers. Does this mean that we should strap on bold meaningless shapes to our spacecraft to make them more daring? No! The boldness should not come from absurd bourgeois pass,, ornamentation, like some gothic cathedral. Instead it should spring forth from the exaggeration and exaltation of the technology itself. Thruster nozzles should glorify liquid propellants, radio antenna should glorify radiation, and gyroscopes should be celebrations of kinetics and velocity! As bold as our spacecraft should be, so too should be the missions we embark upon. We could build a vast mirror in space that reflects eternal sunshine on our wheat fields in the shape of a hammer and sickle. We could dispatch a fleet of a hundred spacecraft simultaneously to explore the planet mars and leave marks everywhere on that distant planet of our glorious adventure. We could send out automatic envoys to record the radio signals of the planets, to hitch rides on comets, and explode asteroids just to see what is inside. The colonization of space is our destiny. At the same time the merging of art and science is inevitable. We should embrace this inevitability and fulfil our destiny with euphoric audaciousness and audacious euphoria.