My google fu is weak, please tell us what shows those rockets were from - I thought one might have been from Tom Corbett Space Cadet, but can't verify that. I also looked up what Captain Video was flying around in, once again, can neither confirm nor deny that his ship is pictured there.
Sixty, those are just some images I stole, or rather "curated," off the Internet, and mashed together. The only one I recognized was the one on the left. I just did some sleuthing on the other two, with mixed results.
(left) is an illustration by Chesley Bonestell from the early space-nerd book The Conquest of Space (Willy Ley, 1949). I checked that book out of the library multiple times when I was a kid, and I now own a copy. That's what I grew up thinking a spaceship ought to look like.
(center) is from what appears to be a very cheesy Japanese movie, Battle In Outer Space (1959).
(right) is identified only as a "Wally Wood style rocketship." Wally Wood was a comic-book artist I'm apparently supposed to have heard of. I was unable to discover the original source of the image.
The NASA rockets are (left to right) Redstone(Mercury), Titan(Gemini) and Saturn(Apollo).
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Tell me when it looks like Kirk's Enterprise.
My google fu is weak, please tell us what shows those rockets were from - I thought one might have been from Tom Corbett Space Cadet, but can't verify that. I also looked up what Captain Video was flying around in, once again, can neither confirm nor deny that his ship is pictured there.
Don't keep us hangin', bro!
Sixty, those are just some images I stole, or rather "curated," off the Internet, and mashed together. The only one I recognized was the one on the left. I just did some sleuthing on the other two, with mixed results.
(left) is an illustration by Chesley Bonestell from the early space-nerd book The Conquest of Space (Willy Ley, 1949). I checked that book out of the library multiple times when I was a kid, and I now own a copy. That's what I grew up thinking a spaceship ought to look like.
(center) is from what appears to be a very cheesy Japanese movie, Battle In Outer Space (1959).
(right) is identified only as a "Wally Wood style rocketship." Wally Wood was a comic-book artist I'm apparently supposed to have heard of. I was unable to discover the original source of the image.
The NASA rockets are (left to right) Redstone(Mercury), Titan(Gemini) and Saturn(Apollo).
Wally Wood worked for Mad which is where I remember him from. I liked his work back in the day.
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