The Rocket Man Starring: Charles Coburn, Spring Byington, Anne Francis, John Agar Film release: 1954 A little boy comes into possession of a...

From the book "Worlds in Space" by Martin Caidin

Though heated arguments still rage among rocket engineers, in their discussions of the future, as to whether or not colonies will be establi...

In 1954, History is made... in polystyrene. The first ever "flying saucer" plastic model kit is produced (and patented ) in 1954. ...

1954-space-rocket , originally uploaded by x-ray delta one . from The Boy's Book of Jets London: Thames Publishing Co. , 1954

The nuclear-powered space ship shown here in a dumb-bell design as often proposed by Arthur C. Clarke, ex-Chairman of the British Interplane...

Individual orientation in space, under zero gravity conditions, will demand superb physical conditioning and control. Completely weightless,...

Take-off! On a pillar of flaming, radioactive exaust gases, the nuclear space ship thunders off the earth and starts its journey through spa...

Within the fast-growing lunar base, a power drill pounds its way into the mountainside. Steel girders and beams from dismantled space ships ...

A design proposal for a scaled-down, piloted three-stage space ship. From the book "Worlds in Space" by Martin Caidin illustratio...

Backbone of the American postwar rocket and upper atmosphere research effort was the wartime German V-2 rocket, of which 100 were shipped to...

On January 4, 1954 the Lux Radio Theater presentated it's own transcribed adaptation of " The Day The Earth Stood Still ." A...

For the early part of the decade a series of stories featured in eight issues of Colliers, penned by the brightest rocket scientists of the ...

dust jacket for the London-published edition "Worlds in Space" by Martin Caidin illustrated by Fred L. Wolff published 1954 Sidgwi...