Such first-generation plastic model manufacturers as Revell, Monogram, Aurora, Lindberg and Strombecker were more than happy to contribute to this public information campaign by kitting the widest variety of conceptual spacecraft models ever to make their way to hobby store shelves. Werner von Braun, Willey Ley and Krafft Ehricke were enlisted to share their visions of space travel that, God- and Congress-willing, lay just around the proverbial corner. To drum up public support for this dangerous and expensive undertaking, rocketry experts, including Dr. The 1950s marked the official start of the "Space Age." At White Sands, New Mexico, in Huntsville, Alabama, and at Cape Canaveral, Florida, American rocket scientists - many of them ex-Germans - worked sleeplessly to design and perfect launch vehicles that would boost artificial satellites - and eventually human beings - into the cosmos.
The desk of the future certainly looked more space age. The foundation of all reentry vehicles, this theory showed that a blunt body would survive the harsh environment of reentry, experimentally verified in 1953.
And there's actually a good reason for that. This is it: The Golden Age of Concept Spacecraft. But sometimes it feels like our futuristic dreams are stuck in the 1950s and 60s. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright.
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