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
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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