It was “Mad Men” meets “Flash Gordon.”

The years from 1957 to 1962 were a golden age of science fiction, as well as paranoia and exhilaration on a cosmic scale. The future was still the future back then, some of us could dream of farms on the
moon and heroically finned rockets blasting off from alien landscapes. Others worried about Russian moon bases.

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