Showing posts with label Chesley Bonestell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chesley Bonestell. Show all posts

Friday, August 21, 2015

Reading Room AMAZING ADVENTURES "Station in Space"

Today, we have the International Space Station.
But what we really wanted in the 1950s was a kool...
...as shown in this never-reprinted feature from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #6 (1952)!
The designs for the station and spacecraft match Chesley Bonestell's amazing graphics which were used by everyone from rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (promoting the space program which eventually became NASA) to movie and tv studios like Paramount and Disney!