Way Out Costume Party

Judging from this photo, the Man from Planet X is feeling like a wallflower. He just can't seem to find a willing dance partner.

Destination Moon (1950)

Images from the production of "Destination Moon," 1950, from the photographers of LIFE magazine. With sets conceived by Chesley Bonestell, co-scripted by Robert Heinlein, it drew upon all resources available at the time to depict such a journey as accurately as possible.

Krafft Ehricke's Space Craft

Ships for Exit and Return & Vehicles for Outer Space
from LIFE magazine
January 6, 1958

Tales of Tomorrow: Morrow on Mars

Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. At the same time as the television broadcast, it was also tried as a short-lived radio series by ABC running from January 1–April 9th 1953.



Tales of Tomorrow: "Morrow on Mars"
Show number 14
Story by ???
Radio broadcast: 1953-04-02

Apologies for the poor audio quality, not much has survived from this science fiction series.

Launch: Morrow on Mars

Thanks to wwwarchive.org for sharing these old time radio broadcasts.

Secrets of Space Flight

Spaceship on cover is a realistic model of the future, made by the rocket expert G. Harry Stine and photographed on White Sands desert

"Secrets of Space Flight"
Fawcett How-To Book, Number 298
by Lloyd Mallan
published by Fawcett Publications, 1956
144 pages

Contents

1. Ships That Probe the Unknown
2. Space Medicine Forges Ahead
3. Men, Mammals and Gravity
4. Escape Capsules and Rocket Sleds
5. Developement of the Space Suit
6. Spaceship in the Basement
7. Launch Into the Statosphere
8. Searching Through Space
9. School for Future Space Pilots
10. Checkout in a Rocket Ship
11. Research Rocket Takeoff
12. Engines of Tomorrow
13. Giant Step Into Space
14. From the Mouse to the Moon to Mars
15. Men who Make Spaceflight Possible
16. Flying Saucers Brought Up To Date

Profusely illustrated with photos and diagrams (b/w), topics cover rocket developement, test pilots, space medicine and current developments relating to space flight. Some movie stills from "This Island Earth."

Original price $.75

The Rocket Man

The Rocket Man
Starring: Charles Coburn, Spring Byington, Anne Francis, John Agar
Film release: 1954

A little boy comes into possession of a ray gun that compels anyone caught in its beam to tell the truth. He uses it to prevent his orphanage from being shut down by creditors and to help a cute couple fall in love.

"The Complete Book of Outer Space" - Online

I was doing a bit of online searching for "The Complete Book of Outer Space", and found a number of hits I'd never came across before.



First off, the book is now mentioned on Wikipedia: "The Complete Book of Outer Space" / Wikipedia

This magazine/book is one of my favorite vintage publications. I still have my old dog-eared copy that my Dad gave me when I was a kid. So this next link may be of benefit to others; the entire contents uploaded on Scribd.com:
"Complete Book of Outer Space" / Scribd.com

Space Beckons

From the book "Worlds in Space"

by Martin Caidin

GORT: Up Close

Cast of original prop used in the movie
Day the Earth Stood Still: GORT Helmet @ Yourprops.com
owned by dispair5150

X-minus One: "The Vital Factor"

"The Vital Factor"
Originally broadcast: November 30 1955

	X Minus One - 55-11-30 X Minus One 027 The Vital Factor .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

The Skyrocket in LIFE Magazine

From the pages of LIFE magazine
Date taken: November 1947
Photographer: Allan Grant

The Space Ark is Ready

Chesley Bonestell's concept painting of the space ark for the movie When Worlds Collide,
from the Fawcett publication The Mystery of Other Worlds Revealed, 1952

Remembering Anne Francis on the Forbidden Planet

Rockets, Missiles, & Space Travel

Rockets, Missiles, & Space Travel by Willy Ley Third revised edition, 1957

Chapters:

1. The Beginnings of an Idea
2. The Decades of the Great Dreams
3. "The Rockets' Red Glare"
4. Prophets with Some Honor
5. The Battle of the Formulae
6. Success, Failure, and Politics
7. The Return of the war Rocket
8. Peenemunde
9. White Sands
10. The Rocket into Cosmic Space
11. The Shot around the World
12. The Spaceship