The
Space Race of the 1950s and ‘60s was just as exciting for the Soviet
Union as it was for Americans, and both nations encouraged that
excitement in children to build their interest in science and technology
for the future.
io9 has a roundup of illustrations
from Soviet magazine, comic books, and children’s books about future
colonists living on the moon and even further out to the planets. The
pictures have many elements in common, like the domed structures and the
proud outstretched hand showing off the progress, but the styles are
varied and beautiful. You have to wonder about the helicopters, though.
The
illustration shown here is by Andrei Sokolov. Typical of the time,
those visions of a future in space had absolutely too much wasted space.
As any real astronaut or cosmonaut will tell you, they don't give you
an inch more than absolutely necessary.
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