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levantineviper:

70sscifiart:

1969 photos of Neil Armstrong practicing for the moon landing. Or faking it. 

via Paleofuture

Or faking it?

Level of technology back at 1970’s was efficient enough to USA actually be able to land on the Moon and get successfuly back. Still the sudden invention of semiconductor triode (transistor) really stinks because you cannot give your engineers / developers unlimited supply of booze and tell them you need that electron tube in miniaturic scale next year based on before unthinkable materials. Mostly be-cause Ballmer’s Peak was discovered at 1990’s.

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I’m joking about a fake landing, guys. You don’t have to tell me we were cool back in 1969. 

1969 photos of Neil Armstrong practicing for the moon landing. Or faking it. 

via Paleofuture

“Will the year 2000 be filled with flying cars or polluted air? Push-button lunches or the start of World War III? These were just some of the predictions made by fourth grade kids in 1976, who had trouble deciding if the future was going to be filled with high-tech gadgets or nuclear war. Or maybe both.”

Read the rest: 18 Bizarre Letters to the Future That Only ‘70s Kids Will Understand

Klaus Bürgle: Skyscrapers of the Future (by veloopity)

MasAlla48 (by berliozian)

Perry Rhodan

“Born on May 23rd, 1921 in East Orange, N.J., Blish was at the right age when the science-fiction genre blossomed. Like many future authors, he found himself caught up in the rush of pulp magazines, along with many other youths in the late 1920s. By the age of 14, he had started his own, short-lived fanzine, The Planeteer, which ran for six issues. While still in high school, he began to attend meetings of the famed Futurian Science Fiction Society in New York City." 

Read more: The Big Ideas of James Blish | Kirkus

“A new publisher has re-re-launched Amazing Stories, the very first science fiction magazine, founded 88 years ago by Hugo Gernsback. Through the month of April, they’ll publish fiction and features, which will be collected as an ezine at the end of the month. The relaunch comes on April 1, Amazing’s 88th birthday." 

Amazing Stories, via Boing Boing

Publicity still for “Quark,” a 1977 TV show.

Syd Mead’s concept art for the Aliens power loader is the first image here, followed by a couple of James Cameron’s. 

Via Io9