Robert Oppenheimer: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Cosplay at the World Science Fiction Convention in St. Louis, 1969. Photos by Jay Kay Klein.
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Tony Bennett goes to space, May 1969: “This is Apollo Control. Apparently the crew is busy at the present time doing some housekeeping chores, washing the breakfast dishes, and so on. The wakeup call which turned out not to be a wakeup at all because the crew had already been awake and had had breakfast, was playing up to the crew Tony Bennett's record of ‘The Best Is Yet To Come.’”
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July 17, 1975: Americans and Soviets shake hands in space during the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
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The launch of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969.
Lisa Ben (aka Tigrina) membership card for the World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles, 1946.
Star Trek cosplay at the World Science Fiction Convention, 1967.
"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
—Nikola Tesla, born on this day in 1856
Dune art by John Schoenherr, published in Omni, July 1980.
Control Data Corporation, an early pioneer in computing, was established in Minnesota on this day in 1957.
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