IF Science Fiction July 1955 – 'Growing Season' Rocket Pin-Up Cover Art

A 1955 newsstand browser would have done a double-take at this cheeky blend of aerospace ambition and cheesecake glamour — a dark-haired woman in a black bikini painted nose-art style on the gleaming red fuselage of a massive rocket, while a blue-uniformed technician works below. Mountains and a spaceport of sleek silver rockets stretch into a brilliant blue sky behind him, grounding the fantasy in postwar optimism about mankind's imminent reach for the stars.