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NASA’s Number 1 Space Suits Model

NASA’s Number 1 Space Suits Model

Hubert “Vic” Vykukal was the principal designer and investigator of the AX space suit series. He was also the company's model ...
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‘Duty’, ‘Faith’ and ‘Country’ – The Mercury 6 Flight Story In Photos

‘Duty’, ‘Faith’ and ‘Country’ – The Mercury 6 Flight Story In Photos

This is the story of how John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth ...
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Le Monde Physique : Illustrating Scientific Phenomena Beautifully (1881)

Le Monde Physique : Illustrating Scientific Phenomena Beautifully (1881)

illustrations for Amédée Guillemin's encyclopedia make science beautiful ...
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Statement for President Nixon to Read in Case the Astronauts Were Stranded on the Moon, July 18, 1969

Statement for President Nixon to Read in Case the Astronauts Were Stranded on the Moon, July 18, 1969

IN THE EVENT Of MOON DISASTER' - Nixon's speech should Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin remain on the moon ...
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Live From The Moon : Brilliant Vintage Snapshots

Live From The Moon : Brilliant Vintage Snapshots

These photographs celebrate our love for the moon mankind first touched 50 years ago ...
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A Look at the Mercury Seven – Astronauts with “The Right Stuff”

A Look at the Mercury Seven – Astronauts with “The Right Stuff”

The post-war test pilot in the 1950s had an incredibly high death rate.  Literally a quarter of them died.  Wolfe’s novel describes the grisly details of life as a test pilot, where it seemed there was a funeral to attend every week. ...
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Take Off To 1960s Space Motels

Take Off To 1960s Space Motels

"MOON LEVEL LUXURY AT DOWN TO EARTH RATES" - Al Stovall's Space Age Lodge in Anaheim, California ...
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61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

In the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet Union assured the great unwashed that ploughing fortunes into the space race was good for them ...
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In Space No One Can Hear You Squeal: Sleazy Sci-Fi from the Seventies

In Space No One Can Hear You Squeal: Sleazy Sci-Fi from the Seventies

Whether it was the micro-mini skirt uniforms on Star Trek, the sex slaves of Logan's Run, ...
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Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future

Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real" - Jules Verne, Around The World In Eighty Days ...
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Metallic Bras from Space! Sci-Fi Pulp Ladies & Their Shiny Metal Brassieres

Metallic Bras from Space! Sci-Fi Pulp Ladies & Their Shiny Metal Brassieres

For some reason, mid-century sci-fi pulp magazines always had their ladies wearing metallic bras.  Go figure. ...
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Testing Ejector Seats In The 1950s

Testing Ejector Seats In The 1950s

  These photographs were taken by Hugo Frederick Mohrlock, a graduate of Syracuse University, California ...
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