Vintage Space Exploration Art

Illustrations depicting various spacecraft and satellites in space, featuring vibrant colors and imaginative designs from the 1970s and 19th century.

INTERPLANETARY TELEVISION Date: circa 1950
INTERPLANETARY TELEVISION Date: circa 1950
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This image illustrates the deployment of the Skylab parasol thermal shield. Skylab lost its thermal protection shield during its launch on May 14, 1973. The Skylab-2 crew deployed a parasol thermal shield to protect the workshop from overheating. The crew attached the canister containing the parasol to the scientific airlock and extended the folded shield through the opening and into space. Slowly, the struts extended, the sunshade took shape, and was in place over the workshop's outer surface. This illustration shows the parasol being fully deployed and retracted for service. Emergency procedures to repair and salvage the damaged Skylab were a joint effort of the Marshall Space Flight Center, other NASA centers, and contractors.
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Moon Traveler Apollo-Z, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships
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S69-19796 (February 1969) --- Composite of six artist's concepts illustrating key events, tasks and activities on the fifth day of the Apollo 9 mission, including vehicles undocked, Lunar Module burns for rendezvous, maximum separation, ascent propulsion system burn, formation flying and docking, and Lunar Module jettison ascent burn. The Apollo 9 mission will evaluate spacecraft lunar module systems performance during manned Earth-orbital flight.
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Galaxy exploration, astronaut and space shuttles. Vector galaxy expedition, moon rover explore a planet, satellite in outer space. Universe explore and colonization mission, galaxy adventure. Galaxy exploration, astronaut and space shuttles
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Moon Base, Mechanical Banks
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Full Moon. From Negatives Taken by Prof. H. Draper, With His Silvered Glass Telescope..
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People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.
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'DARK MOON' (Charles W Diffin) The scientists from Earth land on the satellite which has approached Earth and entered its orbit, and encounter some fearsome fauna... Date: 1931
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Colonizing the Ocean Bottom, 1940's Visions of the Future
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from a series of cards for Brooke Bond Tea; 1973; "The Race into Space", illustrated by David Lawson; illustrated colour image of Soviet space tracking which maintains contact the space probes on route to Venus and Mars (A series of 50 cards, no. 30).
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'THE FLIGHT OF THE EASTERN STAR' (Ed Earl Repp) - the powerful aircraft destroys a dangerous waterspout by flying through it Date: 1929
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Bender's cover for the second issue of Gray Barker's magazine 'The Saucerian', incorporated his visualisation of a saucer base and led to a visit from the 'Three Men' Date: 1953
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People using telescopes to look up at the night sky
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The chapbook , Planets, Sun, Zodiac, Periodicals
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OUT OF THE SUB-UNIVERSE by R F Stazl. A scientist brings two small humans from a parallel 'sub' Universe with a complicated machine Date: 1928
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VSTOL Fighter Model in the NASA Ames 40x80ft Subsonic Wind Tunnel. Test-537 with Mike Falarski & Ray Hafalia
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Science Fiction Quarterly: Killer Plants, Pulp Magazine Covers
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Soviet space propaganda poster. The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.
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The chapbook , Planets, Sun, Zodiac, Periodicals
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Apollo-11 American Eagle Lunar Module, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships
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Atomic power plants predicted. Date: October 1939
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Teenage boy assembling plastic rocket model
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Pictures from the biography of Neil Armstrong, the first man to step on the Moon (1930-2012). Adobe InDesign (.indd); 5000x3536.
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Early NASA illustration depicting one possible method for launching astronauts from the lunar surface at the end of a moon mission,Cape Canaveral, FL, 1961. (Photo by NASA/GG Vintage Images)
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Science-Fantasy, Spring 1952, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships
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Weather and medicine signals for daily reference.. Weather and medicine signals for daily reference.
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Moon-Detector, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships
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'BRAIN OF VENUS' (John Russell Fearn) A criminal's brain comes back to life on the planet Venus, radiating force-rays of madness and death. Date: 1937
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'MACHINE MAN OF ARDATHIA' (Francis Flagg) 35,000 years hence, man lives in a container fitted with controls for everything, including powerful rays Date: 1927
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Unnamed witnesses report a metallic UFO which takes off vertically like a rocket-sighting on 17th September 1954. Date: 1954
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S75-28504 (17 July 1975) --- The American ASTP crewmen search the skies for the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in this humorous artwork by cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov. Astronauts Vance D. Brand, Donald K. Slayton and Thomas P. Stafford (left to right) sit astride the Apollo spacecraft and Docking Module ready to lasso Soyuz. The cartoon humorously depicts the approaching historic event of an American spacecraft rendezvousing and docking in Earth orbit with a USSR spacecraft, scheduled today (July 17, 1975). Aboard Soyuz are Leonov, crew commander, and his fellow cosmonaut, Valeriy N. Kubasov. Stafford is the Apollo crew commander. The U.S. and USSR crewmen will visit each other's spacecraft while the Apollo and Soyuz are docked in Earth orbit for two days. Leonov, an accomplished artist, specializes in paintings on space subjects. He has a number of paintings on public exhibit in his native land.
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'BETWEEN DIMENSIONS' (J E Keith) - The space traveller is seized for examination Date: 1931
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Cosmic Ray Gun, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships
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Science Fiction Quarterly: Astronaut Sizes up the Aliens, Pulp Magazine Covers
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Maurice Masse, a lavender farmer of Valensole, France, encounters two aliens beside their landed saucer in his field : they paralyse him with a kind of 'ray-gun' Date: 1 July 1965
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Affiche de la première Ascension équestre de Poitevin au Champ de Mars, le 7 juillet 1850. Course Aéronautique sur un cheval vivant par Mr. Poitiven.. La Vaulx, Henry de, 1870-1930. Manuscripts, Portraits, Drawings, Prints. 1922 - 1850-07-07. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Horse racing, Balloons (Aircraft), Poitevin, Eugene, Champ-de-Mars
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Mechanical Spacecraft Jupiter, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships
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ASTEROID CITY (2023), directed by WES ANDERSON.
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German Nuclear disarmament poster, by Bernhard Patzack, 1981. 'Der Atomtod bedroht uns alle - Keine Atomraketen'. Nuclear death threatens us all - no nuclear missile
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Cartoon - Another Space Vehicle. John Collins (1917-2007)
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'THE IONIAN CYCLE' (William Tenn) A space traveller from Earth encounters some interesting fauna emerging from eggs, pods, shells or whatever. Date: 1948
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'AUTHENTIC PHOTOS OF SPACE BEINGS AT UFO CRASH SITE' Date: 1980
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The Apollo 11 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida via the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) developed Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16, 1969 and safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. Aboard the space craft were astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, Command Module (CM) pilot; and Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module (LM) pilot. With the success of Apollo 11, the national objective to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth had been accomplished. These sketches illustrate some of the activities of Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin while on the Moons surface. Both men worked in setting up scientific equipment and collecting samples. Armstrong set up the television cameras early so their activities could be watched from Earth.
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Cartoon - More U.S. Space Monkeys. John Collins (1917-2007)
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Color print around 1900 depicting a sterilizer for preparing and preserving childrens milk, illustrating early 20th-century domestic appliances and childcare practices.
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A720122 DIAMOND SKULLS LOGO SANDGREN (Project Engineer) JUL 20, 72 RAY FOSTER EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 7/20/1972 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; LOGOS; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; LOGO historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Camille Flammarion, the world before the creation of man Anonymous. "Camille Flammarion, the world before the creation of man". Lithography. 1880-1900.
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Pharmaceutical advertising Biogestán, for normality in the evolutionary cycle of pregnancy. 1950s.
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Cover to the 1924 march edition of 'Practical Electrics', shows an early recording device called a staccatone.
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Magic poster - Norwood The Scientific Wonder
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Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope - digital file from original item | Library of Congress
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Ancient Egypt vector Valley of the Kings necropolis, Rosetta stone and gods, sacred scorpion, Thoth and Hathor with Ankh symbols, scarab and Luxor obelisk. Archaeological and historical posters. Egyptian Valley of Kings, Rosetta stone and gods
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Short Wave Craft: Short Wave Radio Bomb Locates Mineral Deposits, Electronics - Radio & Wireless
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Owbridge's lung tonic. Date: 1897