Holiday Inn (1973)

Promotional image cashing in on the space race, I presume, as did just about everybody else through the back of the 60's and into the early 70's.

If anyone knows the artist or where is was used, then please share in the comments below. and I'll update accordingly

Fantastic isn't it.

**Update from Bill's comments below - Thanks Bill - Original art is ...

and the original artist is Rick Guidice

Steve

Klaus Bürgle - Gallery

Steve

Faster Than Light (2015)

Out this week.  Lovely cover for issue 1 but can't make up my mind about buying it or not.  Has anyone had a read yet?

And here's the cover for issue 2

Steve

UFO - Close Up (1970)

Just another episode of Gerry Anderson's UFO with its lovely often recycled space suits.  Here they are looking all yellow and freshly painted from being in Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.

You can even see both types of helmet and all the usual space-tech gubbins a chap might need in space

 No oxygen tanks on the back though, not in this show.  Its all in the shoulder unit

 Hang on a minutes!  What's all this about then

 Wow!  Is that what I think it is?

Blimey Crickey!   And Kubrick was adamant that everything should be destroyed after filming, lest it all get recycled and cheapen his original.

 Not sure?  Think its a copy?

Well, firstly, every other type of spacesuit's chest and back unit from 2001 turned up in Doctor Who and other shows through the 70's so why not this one.  And secondly picture 4 shows this...

which looks a lot like this.... 

...from picture 7.

My best guess is when they picked it out the skip at Shepperton Studios it needed a bit of repair work and the top seems far more likely a place to stick it back on than where it appears on the original.

All that remains is to say thanks to Mr Nowak for leading me to this.  You are a star.


Steve

R:Evolution by Hawklords (2015)

Album art

Steve

Supernova (2000)

A troubled production, rewrites, slashed budgets, rush released and probably altogether far too derivative of other genre offerings.....Ah! well. You can't win them all.


Steve

Planeta Bur (1962) Gallery 3

 

I don't really need a reason to have another look at these fantastic spacesuits except to say that when you look closely you will notice - as did I once it  had been pointed out to me - that there is a slight variation in suit design.

Look to the chest lamps; see how one is round and to the side where as the other is rectangular and central.  Fabric varies too but don't take my world for it - view the gallery

Thanks to John Nowak.

Steve