Illustrations by Dean Ellis (1920-2009)

Yakovlev Yak-141

Mistigram: @blippypixel has drawn this #BBCMicro animation of a #mainframe computer suite (and its 9-track vacuum column magnetic tape drives!) from the flexible #IBMSystem360 family of machines, sold for a bit over a decade starting in 1965. This piece was included in the MIST1121 artpack collection.

RCA Spectra 70/45

IBM System/360

The state of computer technology in 1968.

Soyuz 19 side view over Apollo command module, docking module, ASTP

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Sokolov Andrei Konstantinovich

Hand-painted Mattel Electronics sci-fi box art, 1978-82

Stephen Fabian, 1979

Vincent Di Fate

Renato Casaro

Here’s a head-on Space Skeleton Saturday cover, by Ed Valigursky for a 1972 edition of The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein 

Vincent Di Fate, “The Alien Educator, a computerized library,” from Omni magazine, May 1981

The Sun rises over Earth in a postcard illustrated by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, recalling the 1965 mission when he became the first human to walk in space.