Bernard Willem Wierink - Knight and giant ape (1908)
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For 2024, I’m doing Space Crowd Saturday! Every Saturday, I’ll post a retro sci-fi illustration featuring a bunch of weirdos at a party, pub, wretched hive, you get the picture.
First up is a classic scene by Jack Gaughan, for ‘Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction,’ March-April 1978
New Scans: The Light and Dark World Maps from A Link to the Past
The Legend of Zelda Triforce of the Gods World Guidebook, 1992 | ゼルダの伝説, 神々のトライフォース, ワールドガイドブック| ISBN4-8033-3874-4, Published by Taishubo Co.
I 2400dpi scanned and repaired this really awesome set of maps from an old Japanese strategy guide. While someone had posted low quality scans of the whole guide on archive.org at one point; I can no longer find them so I bumped scanning it up on my to-do list. The maps themselves have never been repaired or placed in an online gallery before either so this is probably the first time most people are seeing them.
I think that was pretty good of me, to donate my battery to you. Yes, it was. Yes, it was.
Structural Test Article-099 (STA-099) during final assembly. It was later rebuilt as Space Shuttle Challenger, the second operational orbiter.
Date: December 1977 - January 1978
What’s for dinner? Flight director Gene Kranz enjoys some fried chicken & a Pepsi at the Mission Control console in Houston, 1965 at 32 years of age. NASA’s 2nd Flight Director following Chris Kraft, Mr. Kranz served as FD during the Gemini & Apollo eras. He was Flight Director for the 1st moon landing with Apollo 11 in 1969 & the debut launch of Space Shuttle Challenger in 1981. Also a retired aerospace engineer & fighter pilot, there were few who could rock a flat top or don a vest like Gene Kranz.