I’m all for learning “moon talk”! Image via x-ray delta one.

It’s hard to imagine rocketing straight up to 202,000 feet altitude… but then again, it’s hard (for me) to imagine a U. S. Army Air Force, though I know perfectly well there was one (paging Mr. von Braun….)

A very uplifting HAHAHA I MAKE JOKE recruiting advertisement from 1947. For more awesome retro-space advertisements, I highly recommend Megan Prellinger’s book, Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962.

Image via The Retronaut. Hat tip to @terrazoom for the link!

A Japanese moon-lander concept, circa 1971 for your Friday. Image via x-ray delta one.

I’m highly amused by 21st Amendment Brewery’s “Bitter American” session ale. It’s not often we see our first astronauts represented on product packaging… and these guys have attitude!

If you’d been rocketed into space against your will, you might be a little bitter too. Bitter American is our long-overdue tribute to unsung, unwitting heroes everywhere. This American session ale packs a lot of hop and malt flavor into a refreshingly lower-alcohol brew, making it the perfect beer to have on hand when you have a little history to make.

Some terrific Soviet space propaganda for your Tuesday. See the rest at DVICE.

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!)

Yeah, yeah, it’s a little late for Christmas, but these images are too terrific to wait eleven months to post, I’m sorry! (Hat tip to Rachel Hobson for the find!)

Heh heh, Santa goes out on a LM… (limb! Get it? GET IT?? HAHAHA… okay I’ll shut up now.)

An interesting, Norman Rockwell-esque encounter with alien life from 1955. Image courtesy of x-ray delta one.

The colors and lighting in this illustration by James Bama are just gorgeous. Created for a book cover in 1964, Countdown for Cindy by Eloise Engle. “The thrilling story of Nurse McGee’s mercy mission to a space station on the moon.” (Thanks to @susanjsteward for the detective work!)
Image via x-ray delta one.

I’ve always loved this photo. There’s something a little ethereal about it. Alan Bean gets double points in my book for being a moon-walker/artist.

Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module pilot, pauses near a tool carrier during the Apollo 12 spacewalk on the moon’s surface. Commander Charles Conrad, Jr., who took the black-and-white photo, is reflected in Bean’s helmet visor.
Image Credit: NASA