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Megan Prelinger Author Talk & Slideshow Oct. 29th

Author Megan Prelinger will present a vivid slideshow of space art from her recent book, based on ‘50s and ‘60s-era rocketry recruitment ads.

Learn how rockets and spaceships were imagined before they were real, and how some fantasies of fifty years ago have taken to the sky, while others live on only in science fiction.

 "To the author of this remarkable work must go well-deserved laurels for rescuing rocket/space ad artwork from virtual obscurity. Megan Prelinger's book is a treasure that should find a worldwide readership of space historians, lovers of space art, and all who seek to understand the evolution of humanity's transition to a space-faring species." —Fred Ordway, former member of the Wernher von Braun rocket team and consultant to Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey

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