Oldsmobile Rocket 88 Advertisement: Life Magazine, January 19, 1953
Although NASA was still five years away from the public's collective conscience, rockets were already streaking across the cultural stratosphere in 1953. Buck Rogers and his 25th Century exploits had been around for twenty-five years. More than fifty years had already come and gone since
Georges Méliès had taken that first
Trip to the Moon
. And the grim, technological warfare that engulfed the world ten...
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