Space Station (1956)

Today's retro-futuristic eye candy comes from the 1956 book The Complete Book of Space Travel. This donut-shaped space station, popularized by Wernher von Braun, popped up on TV, in films and even on lunch boxes. Do the kids these days still carry lunch boxes? I really have no idea. I vaguely recall carrying an ALF lunch box to school, but I may be stealing that memory from a Full House episode or something.

Previously on Paleo-Future:

• The Complete Book of Space Travel (1956)
• Space Suite (1956)
• Rocket Ship (1956)
• Challenge of Outer Space (1950s)
• Wernher von Braun's Space Shuttle (1950s)
• Man and the Moon (1955)
• Space Age Lunch Boxes (50s and 60s)

Comments

[Fred]

I have this book!My dad bought it for me in the 70's, as I recall at a used book seller.

[Farley]

Apparently, if I recall correctly, the donut shaped space station's shape lent itself in providing universal, near-earth gravity. Classic.

Today's ISS has localized areas that have gravity (mainly for research) aside from the microgravity inherent in the system, if I am correct in my research.

We used to take paper lunch bags to school. Now I carry a canvass (backpack material?) lunch carrier...lol...maybe kids use those, too.

[Rodger C]

They sold plastic model kits of those too. I made one.

[Farley]

What I like about this picture is that there are a fairly large number of other spacecraft servicing/building the station. Each with a different purpose. We multi-task our machines too much now days :).

[Amy]

We put the lunch boxes in our backpacks.

[Frederick]

I bought a lenticular 3-D postcard in the 60's with a design very similar:
http://fantasticflashbacks.blogspot.com/2009/06/welcome-to-my-newest-blog.html

[Peace of Eight]

Little did they imagine the real "space station" would be nothing more than a pressurized Habi-Trail.

[Vex]

Today's ISS has localized areas that have gravity (mainly for research) aside from the microgravity inherent in the system, if I am correct in my research.

It doesn't. Centrifugal gravity was planned for one of the modules, but it was canned due to budget cuts.

Morans.

[Mike G]

This is another thing they promised us by 2001!

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[Xamuel]

Somehow I'm reminded of the station from 2001: Space Odyssey :P