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

Launch Chesley Bonestell's "Mr. Smith Goes to Venus" Originally published by Coronet magazine, March, 1950 This page contains...

Closeups of the work of Chesley Bonestell paintings, based upon the ideas of Wernher von Braun. From the photographers of LIFE magazine.

Detail of the Space Station in earth orbit, as proposed by Dr. Wernher von Braun The Space Station with a space taxi just leaving its landin...

The first trip to our moon will be without landing, in a ship designed to travel in space only, taking off near the Space Station and return...

See How it will Happen in Your Lifetime! the bold teaser states . . . Conquest of Space , the 1955 movie produced by George Pal. The plot d...

Detail of the arrival of a supply ship, as propased by Dr. Wernher von Braun, to the earth-orbiting Space Station The Third Stage of one of ...

The Third Stage of a rocket ship on its way to the orbit of the station in space. The painting shows the Third Stage at the instant of separ...

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 ...

all paintings by Chesley Bonestell, from The Mystery of Other Worlds Revealed , 1952