“Nasa is launching a spacecraft that strongly resembles a
flying saucer. For more than half a century the distinctive shape has exerted a
powerful grip over the popular imagination.
Fasten your space helmet and set your chrome-plated ray gun
to "retro-futurist". There's a disc-shaped design classic hovering
overhead.
From 1950s B-movies to latter-day pastiches, the flying
saucer has served as visual shorthand for the gleaming, jet-propelled, post-war
vision of the future.”Read More
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