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Understanding Science Magazine

Futuristic, detailed, and very precise, we believe this science-fiction inspired imagination of cosmos exploration to have been created for cover use in the British magazine Understanding Science, a Sampson Low Publication.

Mars Satellite

Artist: Unknown British Illustrator

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, British, cold war, sci-fi, science, Understanding Science Magazine
Added to Gallery: June 28, 2017

Futuristic, detailed, and very precise, this science-fiction inspired imagination of cosmos exploration was created in 1963 as the cover of the British magazine Understanding Science #71, a Sampson Low Publication. Geared to the high school audience, and part of the ongoing space race effort to get youths interested in science during the Cold War, the image dramatizes astronomy by […]

The Milky Way

Artist: Unknown British Illustrator

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, British, original cover art, original illustration art, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction, space exploration, Understanding Science Magazine
Added to Gallery: November 1, 2016

 

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