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Happy Halloween!!! Here is your treat for today (Be sure to click on the image): your own "Space Diorama."
Not quite a punch-out but rather a cut-out set of space pictures. One of the magazines for kids that was popular when I was little was Jack & Jill. It was always moderately interesting and it is always fun to get stuff in the mail. This was a centerfold that you could cut out. Usually they would have a game but it was a "Space Diorama" this time.
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As you can see it was not presented as science fiction but rather something that just hasn't happened yet.
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The influence of Chesley Bonestell's (and other) space art is undeniable in this illustration. This is what it would look like to stand on the Moon.
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The spaceship's basic form was established in the early 1950s so this Diorama perpetuates the "classic" form.
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