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

the holiday issue of Popular Electronics, 1958

Baseball, Apple Pie , originally uploaded by Kiel Bryant . Who couldn't delve into the subject of the Flying Saucer phenomenon in the At...

illustration by John Polgreen from Adventure in Space: Space Travel by Willy Ley, 1957

Assembly instruction diagram for the Revell 1/96th scale model kit of thier XSL-01 , dated 1958. The XSL-01 spaceship was designed by rocket...

The first X-15 (56-6670) rocket powered research aircraft is rolled out in 1958. At this time, the XLR-99 rocket engine is not ready, so to ...