Lockheed Martin’s 1969 vision for a future where foreign nations kick out US military bases, thus necessitating airborne aircraft carriers. The CL-1201!
This converted airship hanger in Germany looks a lot like the classic Space colony pics by Don Davis and Rick Guidice. Cross post from /r/woahdude.
This is the neon tunnel entrance to 127 John Street in July 1971 which was then an office building. Photo was taken by my father when he worked in the building.
Concept Cars from the Dawn of the Jet Age (x-post from r/oldschoolcool, think it’s more at home here)
Happy belated (June 13) to Ralph McQuarrie, the artist whose concepts were the first images Mark Hamill saw for Star Wars
The Ford FX-Atmos, concept car built by Ford for the 1954 Chicago Auto Show. It was considered for using a Nuclear power plant to power it.
Part of the Soviets’ search for extraterrestrial intelligence included this now-abandoned radio telescope on a mountainside in Armenia
The La Serra Complex in Ivrea, Italy, designed by Iginio Cappai and Pietro Mainardis, opened in 1976; it was a social gathering space for Olivetti employees that included a hotel and movie theater.
The Ford FX-Atmos, concept car built by Ford for the 1954 Chicago Auto Show. It was considered for using a Nuclear power plant to power it.
Yuri Gagarin : “Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”
