[humanoidhistory]

Illustrations by Dean Ellis (1920-2009)

[supplyside]

Yakovlev Yak-141

[mistfunk]

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.

[yodaprod]

RCA Spectra 70/45

[dinosaurspen]

IBM System/360

[vintageslideshow]

The state of computer technology in 1968.

[gemini-enthusiast]

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

[website-enjoyer]

<3 metro <3

[transarkadydzyubin]

[70sscifiart]

Sokolov Andrei Konstantinovich

[madddscience]

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

[70sscifiart]

Stephen Fabian, 1979

[70sscifiart]

Vincent Di Fate

[70sscifiart]

Renato Casaro

[70sscifiart]

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

[70sscifiart]

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

[humanoidhistory]

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.