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02:02:13 -- PICTURES OF THE WEEK: From February 1952, Life Magaazine article on the progress of military aviation in the first half of the 20th century (full-size article available through the library portal at general interest articles 1952).
02:16:09 -- PICTURES OF THE WEEK: Beginning in March 1952 and continuing through April 1954, Collier's Magazine carried a series of eight lengthy in-depth features on space exploration authored by world-class experts of the time. Werner von Braun was one such expert, and drew concept sketches (bottom three pictures) for the use of Collier's illustrators for the series (top picture).
02:23:13 -- PICTURE OF THE WEEK: Depiction of a "space walk" in the March 1952 edition of Collier's Magazine. The caption read "Tied to space station so he won't float away, spaceman wears radio and oxygen supply on back of pressurized suit, gets propulsion from portable rocket motor. Actual helmet will have dark glass to ward off dangerous ultraviolet rays; artist made it light to show face". Exactly thirteen years later, in March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first human to live the dream -- not from a space station as depicted above, but from a space capsule. Twenty-four seconds of that historic achievement can be seen here.
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