The Dawning Space Age by H.E. Mehrens 1963 - The purpose of this book is to describe in terms of student understandings the rocket, its components and its applications.
Rocket Scoot (?) - This photo is often credited to French independent photographer Charles Chusseau-Flaviens and dated 1931, but Chusseau-Flaviens’ career spanned the years 1890s - 1910s and it could not be located in either the George Eastman House or the Getty Images archives. Mysterious...
‘Rockets to Nowhere’ - Cover Art: Alex Schomburg, 1954. First edition by Philip St. John (image via Leo Boudreau)
Life On Mars - Illustration of a martian exploration by Fred Freeman featured in a Collier’s magazine article, Can We Get To MARS? - 30 April 1954. The article was written by Dr. Wernher von Braun, a chief rocket scientist from National Socialist Germany - after WWII Braun was taken in by the U.S. and became the principal architect of the U.S. space program. His title: Chief, Guided Missile Development Division, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama.
Once down, the pioneer landing party will unload its tractors and supplies, inflate it’s balloonlike living quarters, and start on a 4000-mile overland journey to the martian equator, where the expedition’s main base will be set up.
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‘Sign Of Honor’ - Soviet postcard commemorating the three USSR moonshots (Luna 1, Luna 2, & Luna 3) in 1959:
Luna 1 (January 1959) missed its intended impact with the Moon and became the first spacecraft to fall into orbit around the Sun.
Luna 2 (September 1959) mission successfully hit the Moon's surface, becoming the first man-made object to reach the Moon.
Luna 3 (October 1959) rounded the Moon later that year, and returned the first photographs of its far side, which can never be seen from Earth.
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Time-exposure of Gemini 10 launch, July 1966 - NASA Photograph: A time-exposure creates the illusion of multiple rocker arms. Onboard were astronauts John Young and Michael Collins, command pilot and pilot, respectively.
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Soviet Science Encyclopedia (1962) - They believed at the time that art and science should lift each other up.
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Cyclonic-Rocket, 1930 - Invented and Designed By Paul Maiwurm, San Diego, CA, U.S. Patented
Willy Ley Space Models: Passenger Rocket/Trans-Oceanic Passenger Rocket Ship - Monogram Space Age Hobby kits, 1959
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Sony All-Transistorized Portable TV, Built Like a 'Space Age' Rocket (Advert Detail) ~~ Published in Ebony, April 1962 (via classic_film)
TWA Moonliner ready to blast off outside the Rocket To The Moon attraction at Disnyland’s Tomorrowland theme park, 1955.
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The Horace Mann Elementary School PTA. Tacoma, Washington, 1958.
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A Moon-Size Mouth-Full: Standard Specialty bubble gum machine card, c. 1960s.
RIDING HIGH in FLORIDA - The SNARK Blasts Off (Cape Canaveral, Florida - Patrick Air Force Base)
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Atlas D ICBM Launch
Vandenberg AFB, CA
c. 1960
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Rocket to the Moon: Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color at Disneyland, California (1955)
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STRINGS FOR A SPACE AGE - A Study In High Fidelity Sound (LP cover, 1959)
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