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.

Space Beckons

From the book "Worlds in Space"

by Martin Caidin

The Skyrocket in LIFE Magazine

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

Remembering Anne Francis on the Forbidden Planet

Remember the Commander on the Forbidden Planet

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

Pacific Rocket Society

Pacific Rocket Soc.

Date: June 1951
Photographer: Loomis Dean
From the photographers of LIFE magazine