A Little Boy's Dream © Andy Lendway 2012

I love it when people send me things they think I’d like! This print by Andy Lendway is adorable — though I know quite a few women, myself included, for whom this image was a little girl’s dream as well. (I still have my space LEGOs!)

Agoraphobia © Austin Kleon

I’ve only just been introduced to the newspaper-blackout poetry of Austin Kleon — I love this one, ever so much. Buy the print here.

And what a lovely view it is, so close to the Moon. How I wish I could vacation there….
Artwork by David Hardy, image via x-ray delta one.

Galactic Manoeuvre, by Nikolai Nedbailo

Two more Russian retro-future images, because I just can’t get enough of this stuff. Image quality isn’t the best on these, but they’re still beautiful to look at! Images courtesy of Dark Roasted Blend.

To Other Worlds! - Detgiz, Russia

A beautiful illustration from the 1950s of a Russian expedition to the lunar surface. Ah, that retro-future! Image courtesy of Dark Roasted Blend.

My personal opinion of rockets is, the POINTIER, the BETTER. This Retro Rocket art print by Michael Murdock fits the bill nicely!

Would NOT want to be the guy pulling the lever, seems like you might get a little toasty when it takes off….

Posted by x-ray delta one, with permission from Paul Malon.

Image courtesy of x-ray delta one @ Flickr

An intriguing illustration from 1970 shows a young boy (who reminds me ever so much of Ivan, the protagonist of The Humpbacked Horse), learning about the Earth and Moon. A Soviet rocket model stands in the foreground. Learn well, young Ivan!

I mentioned on Twitter last week that I noticed the other day, all of the space shuttles I drew in high school happened to be either Discovery or Atlantis, the two launches I saw in person. (Strange coinkydink, dontcha think?) @deliciousblur asked me to post them, so here they are (belatedly.) I have a much larger Atlantis in a frame which I may scan in future (if it’s easy to remove and put back, that is. Pen and ink pointillism is sorta my thing, by the by. Hope you like them!

1947 - Rocketship Galileo, by x-ray delta one, on Flickr

There is something so simple, yet so fantastic about this illustration by artist Tom Voter — I love it! (I prefer Heinlein’s older works, I’ll have to try this one out.)