Futuristic Space Exploration Concepts

Illustrations depicting imaginative concepts of space exploration, including satellites, space stations, and lunar bases from past decades.

METEOROLOGICAL STATION IN SPACE Date: circa 1950

from a series of cards for Brooke Bond Tea; 1973; "The Race into Space", illustrated by David Lawson; illustrated colour image of Intelsat 3, an American satellite (A series of 50 cards, no. 24).

VIETNAM - CIRCA 1988: A stamp printed in Vietnam shows futuristic Spaceship, circa 1988

METEOROLOGICAL STATION IN SPACE Date: circa 1950

Moon Base

from a series of cards for Brooke Bond Tea; 1973; "The Race into Space", illustrated by David Lawson; illustrated colour image of Meteor, a Soviet Satellite (A series of 50 cards, no. 21).

Atomic Airships of Mars, 1940's Visions of the Future

from a series of cards for Brooke Bond Tea; 1973; "The Race into Space", illustrated by David Lawson; illustrated colour image of Viking, an unmanned American spacecraft (A series of 50 cards, no. 44).

Composite Photo U-2 Aircraft in flight around the moon with the planet Earth in the background.

Assembly work in space by Leonov, Alexei Arkhipovich (*1934) / Central Artist's House, Moscow / Modern / 1982 / Russia / Oil on canvas / Genre /

from a series of cards for Brooke Bond Tea; 1973; "The Race into Space", illustrated by David Lawson; illustrated colour image of Sputnik I (A series of 50 cards, no. 1).

Rocket Launching Pad, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

1960S Fantasy Illustration Lunar Landing Exploration Moon Astronauts Satellite Rocket Sci-Fi Science Fiction

futuristic vision of an observatory built on the moon 1948

'CORRIDOR' ENABLING SPACE TRAVELLERS TO TRANSFER FROM ONE SPACECRAFT TO ANOTHER Date: circa 1950

soviet space program, propaganda poster. Soviet man you can be be proud, you opened the road to stars from Earth 1963

MONGOLIA - CIRCA 1981: stamp printed by Mongolia, shows Vostok I, Yuri Gagarin, circa 1981

from a series of cards for Brooke Bond Tea; 1973; "The Race into Space", illustrated by David Lawson; illustrated colour image of the Grand Tour proposed by NASA to tour the solar system in 1977-1978 (A series of 50 cards, no. 47).

Voskhod2,Soviet-Manned Space Mission, Commemorative Postage Stamp, Soviet Union, 1965

Space Station, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

Friction Moon Rocket, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

During a missile test at White Sands proving ground, New Mexico, a missile is 'paced' by two inquisitive UFOs Date: 10 June 1949

from a series of cards for Brooke Bond Tea; 1973; "The Race into Space", illustrated by David Lawson; illustrated colour image of the Russian manned spacecraft Voskhod (A series of 50 cards, no. 15).

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Mercury must withstand colossal heat, and for this reason are likely to exist in the form of insects. Date: 1939

MONGOLIA - CIRCA 1989: stamp printed by Mongolia, shows spaceship Soyuz , circa 1989.

1960s NASA ILLUSTRATION DRAWING TWO ASTRONAUTS EVA WORKING DISK SPACE VEHICLE

This picture illustrates a concept of a 33-Foot-Diameter Space Station Leading to a Space Base. In-house work of the Marshall Space Flight Center, as well as a Phase B contract with the McDornel Douglas Astronautics Company, resulted in a preliminary design for a space station in 1969 and l970. The Marshall-McDonnel Douglas approach envisioned the use of two common modules as the core configuration of a 12-man space station. Each common module was 33 feet in diameter and 40 feet in length and provided the building blocks, not only for the space station, but also for a 50-man space base. Coupled together, the two modules would form a four-deck facility two decks for laboratories and two decks for operations and living quarters. Zero-gravity would be the normal mode of operation, although the station would have an artificial gravity capability. This general-purpose orbital facility was to provide wide-ranging research capabilities. The design of the facility was driven by the need to acc

CUBA - CIRCA 1983: A stamp printed in Cuba, shows ´satelite meteorologico´ space satellite , circa 1983

1960S Space Rocket Flying Past Saturn With Surface Of Another Planet In Foreground

Illustration 1960S Weightless Astronauts Eva Extravehicular Activity Assembling Reflector For Space Station Science Sci-Fi Moon

Science Fiction posters of space stations as mechanical drawings

Diamond production process

MONGOLIA- CIRCA 1981: A stamp printed in Mongolia shows spacestation Salut, stamp from series honoring Intercocmos program, circa 1981.

Space Stories: Assault on Space Lab, 1940's Visions of the Future

CUBA - CIRCA 1983: A stamp printed in Cuba, shows ´mars 2´ space satellite , circa 1983

MONGOLIA- CIRCA 1981: A stamp printed in Mongolia shows spacestation Salut, stamp from series honoring Intercocmos program, circa 1981.

RUSSIA - CIRCA 1972: stamp printed by Russia, shows space satellite, circa 1972

Artist Pat Rawlings' concept of the type of work and hazards future astronauts will encounter on outer worlds Mars Rover Repair

MONGOLIA - CIRCA 1989: stamp printed by Mongolia, shows spaceship Buran , circa 1989.

NASA Art by Rick Guidice The Torus Wheel from 'Space Settlements; A Design Study' in colonization sponsored by NASA Ames, ASEE and Stanford University in the summer of 1975 to look at all aspects of sustained life in space. (ref NASA SP-413, library of congress catalog card number 76-600068)

USSR - CIRCA 1989: Stamps printed in Russia dedicated to exploration in the space, circa 1989

USSR - CIRCA 1974: postage stamp celebrate Mars satellite program, circa 1974

MONGOLIA - CIRCA 1989: stamp printed by Mongolia, shows spaceship Columbia , circa 1989.

MONGOLIA - CIRCA 1982: postage stamp celebrate first man in space, circa 1982

RUSSIA - CIRCA 1977: Stamp printed in USSR (Russia), shows study planets in the solar system, with inscription and name of series ´20 years of a space age´, circa 1977

USSR - CIRCA 1974: A Postage Stamp Shows the Space Stations Mars over Planet Mars, circa 1974

Moon Explorer, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

USSR - CIRCA 1982: A stamp printed in USSR, satellite space station spacecraft ´Venus-13´ , ´Venus-14´ , circa 1982

On Vega, giant star of the Lyra (harp) constellation, life could take the form of insect- like creatures, here depicted carrying a visiting traveler from Earth. Date: 1943

MONGOLIA - CIRCA 1989: stamp printed by Mongolia, shows spaceship Enerqy , circa 1989.

As part of the Space Task Group's recommendations for more commonality and integration in America's space program, Marshall Space Flight Center engineers proposed an orbiting propellant storage facility to augment Space Shuttle missions. In this artist's concept from 1969 an early version of the Space Shuttle is shown refueling at the facility.

Artist Carter Emmart 'The Case for Mars' conference artwork (Mission to Mars) NOTE; for government educational use only -

A fishing party on Vancouver Island, Canada, see a classic domed disc which directs a beam of light at the water(date probably 5th October). Date: October 1973

Science Fiction posters of space stations as mechanical drawings

USSR - CIRCA 1975: A stamp printed in USSR shows International flight of Soyuz and Apollo, circa 1975

Space Explorer, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

This 1969 artist's concept illustrates the use of three major elements of NASA's Integrated program, as proposed by President Nixon's Space Task Group. In Phases I and II, a Space Tug with a manipulator-equipped crew module removes a cargo module from an early Space Shuttle Orbiter and docks with it. In Phases III and IV, the Space Tug with attached cargo module flys toward a Nuclear Shuttle. As a result of the Space Task Group's recommendations for more commonality and integration in the American space program, Marshall Space Flight Center engineers studied many of the spacecraft depicted here.

USSR - CIRCA 1989: Stamps printed in Russia dedicated to exploration in the space, circa 1989

DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE´S REPUBLIC (DPR) of KOREA - CIRCA 1987:A stamp printed in DPR Korea (North Korea) shows 30 anniversary of the first flight satellite, Sputnik-1 1957 , circa 1987

Science Fiction posters of space stations as mechanical drawings

RUSSIA - CIRCA 1977: Stamp printed in USSR (Russia), shows globe and sputniks, with inscription and name of series ´20 years of a space age´, circa 1977

USSR - CIRCA 1986: stamp printed in USSR, shows Venus-Halley´s Comet Project, circa 1986

Stamp of Gösta Bodman's Philatelist Assignment, started in 1950.The stamp from Russia, 1961. Motifs of globe and spaceships. "Sputnik. Vostok's journey around Earth August 6, 1961. The spacepilot Major G. S. Titov in Vostok".

Science Fiction posters of space stations as mechanical drawings

Science Fiction posters of space stations as mechanical drawings

USSR - CIRCA 1981: A Stamp printed in USSR (Russia) shows Salyut Orbital Space Station, with inscriptions and name of series ´10th Anniversary of First Manned Space Station´, circa 1981

Science Fiction posters of space stations as mechanical drawings

'MEN AND WOMEN, LET US SAFEGUARD PEACE !' Cosmonaut Gagarin is permitted to utter a politically innocuous statement Date: 1971

Space Shuttle cutaway showing astronauts working with ESA Spacelab

USSR - CIRCA 1966: stamp printed in the USSR shows Luna-11 - rocket flight to the moon with inscription Luna-11, 28 VIII 1966 , circa 1966

USSR - CIRCA 1987: A stamp printed in USSR , shows launching first satellite of earth, April 12 Day of Cosmonautics , circa 1987

Cartoon - 20th Century Man. John Collins (1917-2007)

USSR - CIRCA 1976: A post stamp printed in USSR divided to April 12 Day of Cosmonautics , circa 1976

iss063-s-001 (Dec. 23, 2019) --- Expedition 63 insignia.

MONGOLIA- CIRCA 1981: A stamp printed in Mongolia shows spacestation Salut, stamp from series honoring Intercocmos program, circa 1981.

Artwork: "Rollback of Space Shuttle Challenger" Artist: George Guzzi, USAF Art Collection. Country: Unknown

Just as we speculate what Martians are like, they must be wondering about us. Knowing conditions on our planet, they perhaps picture us like this. Date: 1940

Jupiter Flying Saucer, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

RUSSIA - CIRCA 1977: Stamp printed in USSR (Russia), shows interplanetary routes, with inscription and name of series ´20 years of a space age´, circa 1977

Science Fiction posters of space stations as mechanical drawings

The Green Splotches by T. S. Stribling. The Interplanetarian flyer leaves Earth. Date: March 1927

FILATELIA-SELLO HUNGARO CONMEMORANDO ASTRONAUTAS RUSOS 1962.

$A star's light refracted through a prism indicates its chemical composition.$

S73-26127 (1973) --- An artist's concept of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit illustrating the deployment of the twin pole thermal shield to shade the Orbital Workshop (OWS) from the sun. This is one of the sunshade possibilities considered to solve the problem of the overheated OWS. Here the two Skylab 2 astronauts have completely deployed the sunshade. Note the evidence of another Skylab problem - the solar panels on the OWS are not deployed as required.

Astounding Science Fiction: Space Fear, 1940's Visions of the Future

RUSSIA - CIRCA 1977: Stamp printed in USSR (Russia), shows Orbital station in open space, with inscription and name of series ´20 years of a space age´, circa 1977

USSR - CIRCA 1976: postage stamp shows satellite "Intercosmos-14", circa 1976

Space Explorer, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

Space Shuttle Re-Entering Earth's Atmosphere

Model of Canada's Alouette satellite at the New York World's Fair, 1964-5

Stamps from North Korea, space capsules, 1976

Yuri Gagarin (1934-68). Russian cosmonaut and first person to travel in space. Czech stamp commemorating his flight in 'Vostok', 12 April 1961

Science Fiction posters of space stations as mechanical drawings

Cartoon - Studying the Stars. John Collins (1917-2007)

Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov,Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov, Boris Borisovich Yegorov, Commemorative Postage Stamp, Soviet Union, 1964

Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov,Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov, Boris Borisovich Yegorov, Commemorative Postage Stamp, Soviet Union, 1964

USSR - CIRCA 1987: A post stamp printed in USSR divided to international Soviet-Syrian space flights, circa 1987

Soviet Union Space Program Commemorative Stamp, CCCP, Mars Mission, 1971

Skyscraper rocket rising into space

Encounter between an Earthman and a Martian Date: 1939

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