#vintage scifi
In 1953 mysterious objects plummet to various points on earth. Soon the objects open, revealing themselves to be transportation pods for alien craft, from the planet Mars. Emerging in groups of three, the seemingly unstoppable Martian war machines wreck havoc on planet Earth, and it’s people. Now, one could argue that these machines aren’t really ships. In fact, they even sorta explain that they are lifted by invisible legs in the movie. But, I’m calling them a spaceship, cause they come from space, and they fly. And they’re pretty darn badass too. And legit scary for a 1950s movie.
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On January 14, 1972, the American National Space Administration (ANSA) launched the Liberty 1 (nicknamed ICARUS) to journey to another star. With the crew in stasis, the ship travelled 2000 years into the future, landing on what the crew thought was an alien world, dominated by a society of intelligent apes. Much to the surprise of astronaut George Taylor, he discovers that he is, in fact, on Earth, long after a war destroyed the planet. You see, they blew it up. The maniacs. They blew it up! God, damn them! Damn them all to hell!!!
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The Atomic Rocket Ship Luna, humanity’s first ship to reach and land on the moon. Well, at least according to 1950’s Destination Moon, one of the rare serious science-fiction movies of the era. The Luna was a single stage rocket, was 150 long and used a solid core nuclear thermal rocket, using water as it’s main propellant. In the film the ship lands back on Earth, nose-up, on it’s tail. Pretty impressive since in reality it took another 68 years to figure out how to pull that off.
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‘Scientia Ficta’ - which one is your favourite 1 or 2? Comment below!
