Re: I Finally Got Colliers Space Magazines!

"Rusty" <reuben_barton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here is a gallery of Colliers Magazines with space covers at
NASA JSC

http://www1.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/coltech.html


Interesting. Notice the March 1953 cover that shows a vehicle with wings on
it and some type of aerodynamic pointy thing on the nose. I guess since we
hadn't actually been to space yet, the artists who drew these things still
assumed that spaceships would have a lot of aerodynamic surfaces - like
wings. The concept that wings would have no application outside of the
atmosphere apparently hadn't caught on yet.


JD


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