Sunday
Sep202009
First Americans on Mars (1964)
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 2:34PM ;)
The 1964 book Rockets to Explore the Unknown contains some amazing illustrations by George Bakacs of what people thought spacesuits, rockets and even TVs of the future would look like. The image above depicts the first Americans on Mars.
Previously on Paleo-Future:
- Animal Life on Mars (1957)
- Plant Life on Mars (1957)
- Mars and Beyond (1957)
- The Martian Base (1951)
- Fantastic Creatures May Greet You to Mars (1957)
- A Suit For the First Man on the Moon (1961)
- Exploring Space (1958)
- Space Suit (1956)
- Man and the Moon (1955)
Reader Comments (5)
I've always enjoyed coming to your site. That is some great artwork. I just started a classic scooter blog myself. I'm searching the internet for other cool retro type sites and decided this is a good blog to link to.
No matter what the gravity on Mars is, that is an awful escalator to climb in a suit as clumsy as these.
Are you sure they didn't land on Mercury? The Sun is way too big in that sky to be Mars, which as everyone knows is farther from the Sun than Earth. Plus the landscape looks almost melted as if from some great source of heat.
But what really matters is that the Stars and Stripes are bigger than anything else in the image, hooray!
Can you reproduce more artwork from this book, please? My chances of having the actual work are slim, so your assistance in this arena would be most appreciated.
In the future, perspective and proportion will not exist.
Hi,
In the past they are very futuristic about the other planet mission and steps of man on the known planets.It takes more time for the human race to put leg on the mars.
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