Rare Soviet Retro-Future Space Art

abramsv writes "A collection of the most inspiring and hard-to-find retro-futuristic graphics from rather unlikely sources: Soviet & Eastern Bloc 'popular tech & science' magazines, German, Italian, British fantastic illustrations and promotional literature — all from the Golden Age of Retro-Future (1930s to 1970s)."

Comments

Re:View of Earth

[MrNiCeGUi]

Are you looking at the same images? Besides that image of the Americas, which does not appear to be from the same set as the rest of the scans, I counted at least two views of Eurasia and one of Australia.

Re:View of Earth

[earthpig]

there are four earth views that are easily identified.
"Lunar Unicycle" by Frank Tinsley, 1959 - pacific ocean
(TM cover, Russia 1953) - Africa Europe
"Nuclear Rocketship" by Frank Tinsley, 1959 - Africa Europe
(image credit: retro-futurismus) - Americas

Interesting, the ideal of female equality

[Jim in Buffalo]

One thing you can say about the Soviets, they had among their ideals equality between the sexes.

In one of the paintings there's a woman standing next to a man, and they're both wearing the same outfit and appear to be equals in the space endeavor, which is a far cry from how space exploration was portrayed in the USA, with only white men permitted to go anywhere near a spaceship.