"Man Will Conquer Space Soon!" returns in High Res

[LunaSea]

In the early 1950?s Collier’s magazine (similar to “The
Saturday Evening Post”) ran a series of articles written by the likes of
Willy Ley and Werner von Braun, illustrated by the likes of Chesley
Bonestell and Fred Freeman, describing what the future of manned space
exploration may look like. Their vision was, to put it mildly, grandiose,
and far exceeded what the actual space program became and did… but the
impact on the public of these articles helped lead to the space program
becoming popular with the public… and the government. The designs that were
produced, such as the Ferry Rocket and “Wheel” space stations, are
comfortably described as “iconic.”

The July/August 2012 issue of AIAA-Houston Horizons reprints the complete
first Collier’s article from March 22, 1952. The original magazine layout
included numerous ads and extraneous bits that were edited out of this
reprint, and in several cases replaced with “Mini-APR” articles, several of
which tie directly into the Collier’s series. This first article includes
about 30 pages of the original Collier’s stuff. Future issues of Horizons
will carry the complete set of Collier’s article,s including the Moon
exploration and Mars exploration articles.

As always, Horizons is a free-to-download PDF. New for this issue, it is
available in both high and low resolution.

http://www.aiaahouston.org/newsletter/

[a geek named Bob]

1. You always give us the best presents

[LunaSea]

2. Wait till you see the future I have in mind......

[a geek named Bob]

3. Dude...

You are perpetually invited over for a beer.

That's one of my favorite movies.

[LunaSea]

4. Guinness, or nothing Passworthy,

Which shall it be?.....

[a geek named Bob]

5. Guiness!

And lots of it!

[LunaSea]

7. It's on, geekboy!

I'll bring along a copy of "we swear this is the final, corrected and complete version of Metropolis you will ever see until we find yet another one..."

I'll bring crayons, if you want to colorize it too..

[a geek named Bob]

10. I'll bring the BBQ!

Make it a marathon of SF movies!

Beer, BBQ, and SF.

[skoalyman]

6. what movie is that from?

[LunaSea]

8. Things to Come

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come

[pokerfan]

9. Things to Come (HG Wells)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028358/

[BowlLikeAChicken]

11. I so love this stuff,

I knew when the cold war ended any pretense to being in space for all the right reasons were abandoned.


Chesley Bonestell was always a particular favorite.

If you have cable or satellite tv, see if you have the NASA channel, most of it is boring and aimed at getting kids interested, but they do show feeds from various cameras mounted internally and externally at the ISS.


My own stab at a space program;

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[LunaSea]

12. Neat!

perhaps you should check out these folks-
http://iaaa.org/
Carrying on the Bonestell tradition.

[BowlLikeAChicken]

13. thank you

I've never heard of them, I like the site and will visit many more times, thank you !

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