Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy
Mystery Gadget 64
NASA uses this. What is it?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 07, 2018 -
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Category: Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Technology, 1960s
1958 Rocket Queen
"Karen Barger, 14-year-old queen of Van Nuys-Sherman Oaks Water Carnival of 1958, steps down from simulated rocket ship to open show."
Original photo here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 03, 2018 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1950s
Light Is Invisible
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 17, 2018 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Science, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1940s
Moon Cheeze
July 20 was the anniversary of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. Back in 1969, the Fisher cheese company, located in Armstrong's home town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, capitalized on that achievement by coming out with "Moon Cheeze." It seems to have been just regular American cheddar cheese. Only the packaging was special. It came in a container shaped like the state of Ohio. Apparently it was so popular that they kept making it for years.
Palladium-Item - Jan 19, 1969
Pensacola News Journal - July 18, 1969
Bonus: Armstrong making pizza in 1969. That looks like mozzarella, not Moon Cheeze.
via I have seen the whole Internet
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 21, 2017 -
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Category: Food, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1960s
A Funky Space Reincarnation
"You and me gonna be getting down on a space bed...getting down on the Moon!"
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 30, 2017 -
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Category: Music, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Sex Symbols, Science Fiction, 1970s
Death by Space Helmet
Another example of the danger of reading comic books. From July 1954:See here for a previous example.
The Guardian - July 27, 1954
Perhaps the space helmet that inspired him looked something like this:
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 25, 2017 -
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Category: Death, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Comics, Headgear, 1950s
Flying Saucers Are Real
A great new book by my talented and weird writer pal Jack Womack.Read a piece on it here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 23, 2017 -
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Category: Aliens, Eccentrics, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy
The Smell of the Moon
When the astronauts of Apollo 16 re-entered the lunar lander, they reported that the moondust they tracked in with them had an intense smell, like gunpowder.French perfume designer Barnabé Fillion attempted to recreate and bottle this scent, but not as a perfume. What he created was "a sealed borosilicate glass vial containing scented artificial lunar regolith."
You can buy it for €75 (around $80). But once you buy it, you face a dilemma: "break open the vial and the scent will dissipate over time and just like all the material brought from the moon by NASA it will become devoid of any smell; or leave it sealed and preserved forever, enjoying the precious idea of an out-of-this-world scent."
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 27, 2017 -
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Category: Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents
Follies of the Madmen #287
Click to enlarge.
Original images here. (Pages 10 & 11.)
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 05, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Comics, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #285
Wait a minute--I'm confused by the graphics. Does this product come from outer space?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 14, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1950s, Hair and Hairstyling
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