Robert Redford narrates “The Plutonium Connection,” 1975.

nobody wants a thinner phone. everyone wants a longer computer. look at this rig. phenomenal

Robert Redford with cardboard Paul Newman in Utah, 1969. Photo by John Dominis.

LOST IN SPACE premiered on this day in 1965.

September 13, 1999: An explosion knocks the Moon from orbit, sending the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha on a journey into the far reaches of outer space.

The insides of a digital quartz watch, illustrated by Ray Pioch for Popular Science, November 1972.

Arthur C. Clarke in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1973.

The art of John Berkey (1932-2008)

Bob Larkin’s cover art for the STAR TREK novel "The Starless World" by Gordon Eklund, 1978.

They need no introduction.

STAR TREK premiered on this day in 1966

Mobile phones collected at a shop in Helsingborg, Sweden, from the 1980s to around 2000.

Labor Day cartoon by Fred Wright, 1962.

I saw this coin-op E.T. at the annual Bell Plastics open house event in Hayward, CA. (They collect all kinds of weird and wonderful artifacts.) I was immensely bummed that it wasn’t plugged in and functional, as I couldn’t quite wrap my head around how a kid would “ride” this. Does anyone know?

Boba Fett and Darth Vader, beautifully animated by Nelvana Productions for the Star Wars Holiday Special, 1978. This was the bounty hunter’s debut in a galaxy far, far away.

Gemini 8 spacesuit, 1966.

John Berkey, 1973.

Ralph McQuarrie works on a matte painting for “The Empire Strikes Back.”

Alex Schomburg, 1980.

The art of Chris Foss.

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The Computer Age, 1960-1969.

ALIENS promo pic, 1986.

Storyboard for “The Empire Strikes Back.”

What I’m reading today: “How newspaper comics created pop culture.” www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/4f176a8a-7...

Chris Foss, 1980.

Interfaces in STAR TREK, season one.

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ALIEN costume design by Moebius.

Star Trek card by Topps, 1976.

People forget how audacious and risky Apollo 8 was. A bright spot of daylight at the end of a dark, turbulent year.

Transmitting from 180,000 miles away, Apollo 8 astronaut Jim Lovell speaks to the world on December 26, 1968: “What I keep imagining is, if I'm some lonely traveler from another planet, what I’d think about the Earth at this altitude, whether I’d think it'd be inhabited or not.”

STAR WARS storyboards by Alex Tavoularis.

“The Phantom Menace” ship design by Doug Chiang.

DEVO plays the California Theater in San Diego on August 20, 1980.

Control room for the Azusa Mark II missile tracking system at Cape Canaveral, 1960.

Publicity still for METROPOLIS, 1927.

Wally Wood artwork for Worlds of Tomorrow, August 1963.

STAR WARS (1977)

British poster for THINGS TO COME, 1936.

Program cover for Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS, released in Japan in 1929.

GM Firebird IV concept car, 1964.

San Diego Comic-Con, 1982. Photo by Alan Light.

Comic book prices at San Diego Comic-Con, 1979.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Turkish Superman!

R.I.P. Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025)

Australian promo for OUTLAND.

On the set of GODZILLA VS. GIGAN, 1972.

Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong on the Moon, July 20, 1969

Gemini 10 blasts off from Cape Canaveral on this day in 1966.