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Lots of space art goodness for today.
OK this one is for Michael S. We had been talking about this poster and I promised to blog about it when it got here.
Only identifying information on it is: Copyright 1959 Educational Posters #117 "Space Age"
This poster is one of those that gets stuck in your memory. I don't know when I first saw a copy but when I found images of it online a few years ago I kept trying to find one. Part of the problem is that all the identifying information is so generic: "Space age," "Educational Posters," etc.
What is special about it is that it is paintings of rockets, satellites, a flying saucer, and an astronaut. These are from a wide variety of sources including the Collier's series, the Disney series, and a few other interesting inspirations. Each image is labeled so I will give the label in case it is too small to see.
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"Personnel Rocket" (Adapted from Lindberg "US Moon ship" model?)
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/US%20MOON%20SHIP%20PAGE.htm
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"Instrument carrying satellite" (From Collier's Bonestell 'Baby satellite')
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"Relief Ship" (From Disney RM-1 'Circumlunar ship')
"3 stage personnel rocket" (From Collier's Klep illustration)
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"Colony sphere" (Possibly from The Torchship "Lewis & Clark" from
Time For the Stars by Robert A. Heinlein, 1956)
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3i.html
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"Third stage unit" (From Disney 'RX-1' or 'XR-1')
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"Flying saucer" (From the 1950 book "The Flying Saucers are Real")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Saucers_Are_Real
"Three stage rocket"
"Space station" (From Collier's Bonestell illustration or Lindberg "US Space Station" model?)
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/US%20SPACE%20STATION%20PAGE.htm
"U.S. X-15"
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"Research ship" (From Collier's Bonestell illustration)
"Exploration ship" (From Frank Tinsley illustration of "Light-propelled space ship"
)
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3p.html#tinsley
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"Space reconnaissance ship" (From Frank Tinsley illustration "Space Scout" from 1958 book:
The Answer to the Space Flight Challenge )
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3p.html#stine
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"Weather eye satellite"
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"Fourth stage passenger unit" (From Disney MX-1 or XM-1)
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"Space suit and anti-gravitational unit" (From Collier's Klep illustration)
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"Space reconnaissance and 3 stage propellant"
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"Exploration ship" (Collier's Bonestell Mars Ship illustration)
"Observatory satellite" (From Strombecker "Manned Observational Satellite" model?)
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/CONVAIR%20MANNED%20OBSERVATIONAL%20SATELLITE%20PAGE.htm
The artist was Richard Amundsen.
Educational Posters evidently produced a number of posters for classrooms including HISTORY OF SHIPS, HISTORY OF FLIGHT, SPACE AGE and CHILDREN OF OTHER LANDS. Educational Posters Co., was a division of Dow (Louis F) Co.
Sorry for the low quality photographs but I wanted to show as much detail as I could.