Collier’s is famous for their extensive “Man Will Conquer Space Soon!” series printed from 1952-54, but this is from another article of theirs on a similar topic printed several years before.
Collier’s is famous for their extensive “Man Will Conquer Space Soon!” series printed from 1952-54, but this is from another article of theirs on a similar topic printed several years before.
The shields are thermocouples to generate solar power, in those days before photovoltaic cells – well, they’d just been patented a few months before and nobody had heard of them yet or even knew why they worked.
The poles are, I think, just trekking poles with gaffs on them to help with steep inclines.
oh good I thought they imagined they would be fighting the moon aliens