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Post Sputnik in 1957, Goodyear pushed an integrated set of rocket, spaceship, and space station designs, and continued to do so through the early 1960s until it became clear that NASA was going ahead with their own approach.

This image was printed in Missiles & Rockets magazine's March 1960 issue, so slightly outside our group timeframe. But the design itself is a bit earlier; this picture would have been by Goodyear themselves, sometime in 1958 or '59.

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[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

So cool, thanks for sharing this.

This reminds me of the space pods in Neal Stephenson's book, Seveneves.

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Raygun Gothic refers to any creative work from 1900 through about 1959, predicting the future before it became possible. Think rockets and rayguns, flying cars and futuristic cities - especially if the vision never quite panned out in reality. We find this aesthetic in product design, book covers, films, radio & TV. "A tomorrow that never was". The same style as in the Fallout games, The Jetsons and so on but focused on the time period through the 50s.