Robotic Spacewalkers Outside Honeycomb Spacecraft, Amazing Stories May 1930s
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Robotic Spacewalkers Outside Honeycomb Spacecraft, Amazing Stories May 1930s

Extravehicular activity and modular spacecraft design take center stage as two articulated humanoid robots in segmented golden pressure suits perform a spacewalk alongside a massive honeycomb-paneled spacecraft. Through a large circular viewport, a figure is visible inside the vessel. A luminous planet looms below against the star-speckled void. The hexagonal hull plating suggests advanced alien or future engineering, while the robots' insectoid visors and jointed limbs evoke biomechanical design decades ahead of real NASA concepts.

Category: Magazine Cover
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Artist: Leo Morey
Era: Pulp Era (1920s-1940s)
Decade: 1930s
Country: United States
Coolness: 8/10

Holy smokes, those robot men are walking around OUTSIDE the spaceship like it's nothing! I've never seen anything so swell — I'm buying this one before Billy grabs it off the rack first.

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MAY AMAZING STORIES 25 CENTS IN CANADA 30 CENTS Scientifiction stories by: Edmond Hamilton David H. Keller, M.D. R. F. Starzl

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