tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14054226668349070.post2054318539728060466..comments2024-03-06T09:25:30.769-08:00Comments on Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera: Collier's March 22, 1952 "Man Will Conquer Space Soon"John Sissonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18232677016091921767noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14054226668349070.post-24889068722700385302019-12-28T06:14:29.801-08:002019-12-28T06:14:29.801-08:00Thanks for making this classic material available!...Thanks for making this classic material available! I've been a fan of Chesley Bonestell's space illustrations since I was perhaps eight years old, and my late Dad worked on bothe Apollo moon rockets and on the Space shuttle orbiter. The COLLIER'S Magazine articles brilliantly depict what is still largely unfinished business fror our species---and that future still awaits us. Whether or not we fulfill our promise by taking up the challenges, and taking the risks involved, lies with us. <br />theo j.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13098318750846934988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14054226668349070.post-35704761145500537542019-10-03T18:14:51.752-07:002019-10-03T18:14:51.752-07:00WOW how this looks rocket resembles SpaceX newest ...WOW how this looks rocket resembles SpaceX newest version of the Big Falcon Rocket... just unveiled Sept 28 2019.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12044558011508023472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14054226668349070.post-37126816479497312252016-07-02T12:37:15.922-07:002016-07-02T12:37:15.922-07:00Great Blog - Big fan now! I'm an artist-a drea...Great Blog - Big fan now! I'm an artist-a dreamer that believes we have allowed the ball to drop for 40 years now on Space Exploration as we seem to have lost our nerve, our drive, not for conquest, but for sheer Human determination, curiosity and dreams. We've allowed our elected "officials" to shut down the space program because I hear all sorts of ideals about how we don't need to go, what good came of landing on the moon. How about Solar, Medical, Technical breakthroughs every day that have affected out lives for the better, pyrex, teflon, new plastics for instance or new imaging systems thanks to NASA research for our human bodies so we can fight and fight diseases faster and with greater success. That all comes from space travel that can lead to a new, clean, world where everyone finally is equal and given the rights and life they deserve. Our new "eyes in the sky" don't just spy on us but others find new resources, measure rates of pollution and various aspects of how our world is changing rapidly and gives us insight into what will be coming in the future. NASA in cooperation with other agencies are mapping Earth, the weather patterns, the shifts in our environments over time and are giving new data everyday ever since we went to the moon, and the most important moment is when, while we were heading there, we inadvertently, turned the hand-held camera back at a now small blue planet showing where we really are in the universe and how important and rare this beautiful planet is. I talk with people at NASA, we need more budget money again for them. We need to get back out there. Yes, there have been awful events but space, like life is always dangerous, but we need a future we can believe in. I think that we have lost that belief in our future but we can dream again and this blog reminds us of this - thank you! Let us dream and turn those dreams into reality. Best, James Christopher Hill, Visual Artist and Visionary of a brighter future. Thank you! www.JamesHillGallery.com James Christopher Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02205533992459742670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14054226668349070.post-81635799851649517572014-02-01T01:59:04.516-08:002014-02-01T01:59:04.516-08:00Nice history!Nice history!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01628013843344330035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14054226668349070.post-39824304252768072462013-07-17T22:35:58.870-07:002013-07-17T22:35:58.870-07:00I was not quite 7, but it had the same effect on m...I was not quite 7, but it had the same effect on me ... to this very day! This vision is amazing given that it was more than 60 years ago.Chuck Doswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03099345055614900157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14054226668349070.post-40271511591443645512012-06-11T18:23:54.229-07:002012-06-11T18:23:54.229-07:00Ogled, then built kits of spacecraft from this art...Ogled, then built kits of spacecraft from this article. Wrote my own science fiction, raced Pyro plastic spacecars, sat astounded as "The Conquest of Space" flashed by on the Big Screen - all between Colliers and Kennedy. Von Braun Coggins and Ley, et al remain close to my 62-year old heart. Started a YAHOO! GROUP similar to your wondrous blog:9 "Spacejunk". Mind if I post a link from there to here?pylgrymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11112147219751420731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14054226668349070.post-14018512429233713312012-05-10T07:24:05.720-07:002012-05-10T07:24:05.720-07:00Fond memory! I remember that issue well - first en...Fond memory! I remember that issue well - first encountered when I was twelve.Axel Harveynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14054226668349070.post-69560613188454187242012-04-25T12:38:16.700-07:002012-04-25T12:38:16.700-07:00We are tempted to reproduce the entire series for ...We are tempted to reproduce the entire series for our newsletter at www.aiaa-houston.org. I am the editor (editor-in-chief@aiaa-houston.org). This is The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), AIAA Houston Section. Your scans (JPEGS, I guess) are of the quality we would like to put in our PDF newsletter. We conclude copyrights for such scans have expired, but we will touch base with the new Collier's, who bought the brand, but probably did not buy the copyright, the Bonestell estate, etc. We can obtain the scans elsewhere, but it might not be easy. Maybe we can work with your scans? Thanks in advance for contacting me at that email address. We just want to make that entire series available to the public while respecting copyrights if they exist.Douglas Yazell https://www.blogger.com/profile/08400447854474608140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14054226668349070.post-34434097063594550902012-04-15T09:22:38.513-07:002012-04-15T09:22:38.513-07:00... thank you so much for posting this historic do...... thank you so much for posting this historic document. This is the first time I have ever seen it in anything like it's complete form. This issue of 'Colliers' is often referred to as the beginning of the 'space-age' and credited as a galvanizing point in popular support for America's Space Program. Your blog is an excellent and high-quality contribution to the preservation and dissemination of this important historical period! Thanks again!james vaughanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10257538676931882302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14054226668349070.post-40750096554693310892012-03-23T10:46:11.498-07:002012-03-23T10:46:11.498-07:00I was in fifth grade when this was published and m...I was in fifth grade when this was published and more than anything it started my lifelong interest in space (google "microlaunchers"). <br /><br />60 years ago--over half way to the time of the first flight. How far we've come...Charles Pooleyhttp://microlaunchers.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14054226668349070.post-53193179601319483832012-03-22T16:53:07.040-07:002012-03-22T16:53:07.040-07:00Thanks John for putting together a great blog on o...Thanks John for putting together a great blog on one of the milestones that helped launch us into the era of space exploration. Now if we only had people who could do that on a national scale again.<br /><br />MichelleMichellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03381080975829899961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14054226668349070.post-48097917185694745722012-03-22T15:20:09.881-07:002012-03-22T15:20:09.881-07:00Great item. I know this issue of colliers even tho...Great item. I know this issue of colliers even though I was barely 7 when it was published. It haunted my childhood with its cutaways and space taxis.<br /><br />Thanks for bringing this back so well.vanderleunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296245324443413545noreply@blogger.com