In the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, reader JMV shares this wonderful scan of a 1952 feature from the Vancouver Sun’s “Weekend Picture Magazine” on the coming age of travel to Mars.
Illustration by Edgar Ainsworth.
“It will probably be some 50 years before any safe space flight from Earth to another planet and back is made, but there seems now to be very little doubt that the dreams of Roger Bacon in AD 1249 and Albertus Magnus in 1280 have left the realm of Wellsian imaginings and become a practical proposition.”
Here’s a larger size. Guess they didn’t think of Rovers!