Retro-Rockets
These pages contain some of the rockets that fired my imagination as a child - particularly the books below. I have a real fondness in general for the sleek rounded designs of the 50's, but I have a special sentimental attachement to these images from my childhood books.
You might find them interesting as art or design examples for NAR Fiction/Future category entries. I have also included a few modern examples of "Retro" rockets, such as the ship from Futurama. It isn't old, but it has style.
Copyrights are indicated in each section. Though some of these materials are old, the copyrights are probably held by someone. In every case, these images are intended as references to an original work for scholarly research, not as a representation of ownership by me. If you hold the copyright to any of these images and do not approve of this use, let me know and I'll remove it.
Books
Movies
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| Destination Moon |
When Worlds Collide |
First Spaceship on Venus |
2001 A Space Odyssey |
Conquest of Space |
Television
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| Thunderbirds |
Fireball XL-5 |
Futurama |
Von Braun's Concept Rockets
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| Collier's article |
Disney's Man in Space |
Other Miscellaneous rockets |
Links
- John Sisson's Space Art in Children's Books site - a tribute to space as portrayed in children's books from the 40's to the 70's.
- David Portree's Romance to Reality site - a collection of historical visions of moon and Mars colonization.
- Solar Guard - home of Tom Corbett and other space heroes of the 50's.
- Man Conquers Space - home of a production company working on a short movie based on what might have been if von Braun's plan had been executed as it was outlined in Collier's.
- A Tribute to Chesley Bonestell by Paul Hoffman with VRML renderings of of the Bonestell / von Braun mars expedition ships.
- Aerospace Projects Review a magazine specializing in retrospectives of aerospace projects that never made it through to completion.
- Grand Central Rocket A nostalgic site devoted to the amazing space technology of old movies and TV shows.
- A nice collection of information on space movies now available from HobbySpace. Quite a few of the old "B" movies from the 50's are being released now in widescreen on DVD.
- An extensive collection of images from the Collier's Series plus many other paintings by Bonestell and other space artists.
