25.12.10

A Spacey Christmas to All


the holiday issue of Popular Electronics, 1958

14.12.10

Rocket Belt




From the photographers of LIFE
Rocket Belt
Undated
Photographer: F. Miller

29.11.10

Remember the Commander on the Forbidden Planet














Leslie Nielsen as Commander John J. Adams from "Forbidden Planet," 1956

10.10.10

The Powers of 10

On this historic date (10/10/10) I'd like to share with you a short work created by the Eames (Eameses?), namely the Powers of 10.

Basically, the Powers of Ten is a 1968 American documentary short film written and directed by Ray Eames and her husband, Charles Eames, depicting the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten.

This film has been stuck in my mind since being wowed by it in my junior high school science class. Believe me, most of the filmfare we got in school was pretty dry stuff!

Visit the official website to learn more.

21.9.10

Colonies to the Moon

Though heated arguments still rage among rocket engineers, in their discussions of the future, as to whether or not colonies will be established on the moon, and how these colonies will be transported through space to the earth's satellite, the only elaborately detailed plan yet presented publicly on a scientific basis for this purpose is that advance by Dr. Wernher von Braun. He proposes three tremendous space ships weighing more than 4,300 tons each, merely for a six week stay on the moon in space ships similar to that pictured here.

From the book "Worlds in Space"
by Martin Caidin
illustration by Fred L. Wolff
(1954)

23.8.10

Pacific Rocket Society








Pacific Rocket Soc.
Date: June 1951
Photographer: Loomis Dean
From the photographers of LIFE magazine

14.7.10

Fashionable Moon Hat - 1956

Straight out of "Moon Men from Mars" its the moon bridal hat for the open-minded....
the very open-minded.


10.7.10

X-1 and Crew

X-1, Jack Russell, Chuck Yeager & the ground crew stand underneather the mothership loaded and ready to go with the experimental X-1 rocket plane aka Glamorous Glennis.

Jack Russell was also Chuck Yeager's Crew Chief - pictured front and center.

Jack was a technical advisor for the movie "The Right Stuff." He even had a cameo role as the janitor who sawed the broom handle needed to close the hatch after Yeager broke his ribs.

V2 and Little Joe


V2 and Little Joe, originally uploaded by mikegrados.

White Sands Missile Range static display of the twisted remains of a flown V-2 and in the background a rocket configured to test an Apollo capsule configuration, nicnamed "Little Joe."

First View of Earth from Space

The first view of the Earth as seen from space, from a camera mounted on a captured German V-2 rocket, launched October 24, 1946 at White Sands, USA.

Lindberg Moon Ship


Lindberg Moon Ship, originally uploaded by modern_fred.

Lindberg Mars Probe Transport

Lindberg Space Station


Lindberg Space Station, originally uploaded by modern_fred.

Lindberg Rocket Ship


Lindberg Rocket Ship, originally uploaded by modern_fred.

Revell Moon Ship


Revell Moon Ship, originally uploaded by modern_fred.

A scaled back version of the multiple stage XML-1 kit.

Strombecker Disney Launcher


Strombecker Disney Launcher, originally uploaded by modern_fred.

9.7.10

Strombecker Disney Moon Ship


Strombecker Disney Moon Ship, originally uploaded by modern_fred.

8.7.10

Space Ship of 2038


Amazing_Stories_Dec39_BC, originally uploaded by PopKulture.

Concept art for a space ship one hundred years into the future, the year 2039.
From Amazing Stories, December 1938

ORBIT Play A Way Cards

Swell and Spacey


Swell Super, originally uploaded by changoblanco.

Artificial Gravity


artificial gravity, originally uploaded by Jason M. Childs.

Strombecker Disney Spaceship


Strombecker Disney Spaceship, originally uploaded by modern_fred.

Based on Werner von Braun's ferry rocket concept, of course!

4.7.10

Happy Fourth!

Have an out of this world Independance Day!

DSCN7067

26.6.10

Eclipse


Eclipse, originally uploaded by Kiel Bryant.

From the MGM movie "Forbidden Planet."

Amazing Stories June 1940

Fifty Years Ago Today - June 26, 1960

Fifty Years Ago Today - June 26, 1960 - Six-minute message received by Jodrell Bank, England, was last communication received from PIONEER V, then 22.5 million miles from earth moving at a relative velocity of 21,000 mph. Since March 11 when launched, PIONEER V traveled some 180 million miles, and it would fly 18 million miles closer to the sun than any manmade object.

22.6.10

Fifty Years Ago Today - June 22, 1960

Fifty Years Ago Today - June 22, 1960 - Navy TRANSIT II-A, an experimental navigation satellite with two payloads (navigation and radiation measurement), successfully launched into orbit by Thor-Able-Star vehicle. This was the first time that two instrumented satellites have been placed into orbit at the same time.

Fifty Years Ago Today - June 22, 1960

Fifty Years Ago Today - June 22, 1960 - Navy TRANSIT II-A, an experimental navigation satellite with two payloads (navigation and radiation measurement), successfully launched into orbit by Thor-Able-Star vehicle. This was the first time that two instrumented satellites have been placed into orbit at the same time.

21.6.10

Star Chart


Planet Stories


from Planet Stories

19.6.10

Sputniks and Rockets


Sputniks and Rockets, originally uploaded by jericl cat.

15.6.10

Fifty Years Ago Today - June 15, 1960

Fifty Years Ago Today - June 15, 1960 - Saturn static test firing of 121 seconds successful at MSFC.

12.6.10

Tin Litho Atomic Ray Gun on eBay


Atomic Ray Gun Space Rifle w/Orig Box
She's going, going, gone tomorrow! Isn't she a beauty? Now why can't I have nice, completely unnecessary things like this in my home?

The Spaceman Cometh


Richards02.jpg, originally uploaded by leifpeng.

Collier's Magazine
Illustrated by Walter Richards
November 1955

Be sure to click the link and then select all sizes. Wish the rest of the story was here as well!

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