In 1950 , the American Museum of Natural History ’s Hayden Planetarium promoted its Conquest of Space expo with a peculiar stunt . They solicited letters from the ecumenical public , inviting them to allow buttocks on the first flight into space . Letters pour out in from around the country , mull the public ’s grand space age dreams .
The planetarium get alphabetic character and sketch from aspiring astronauts young and old , and today they dish as a clip space capsule for how people think infinite travel . It ’s a mostly affirmative vision , where ordinary Americans believe they might someday work their fare aboard a spaceship bound for Mars or the moon .
There are a few more unusual entrance , however . One letter indicates that the author believe we might find dinosaurs on Venus . Matt Novak of Paleofuture suspectshe might have amaze the idea from a report published in a 1950 proceeds of Coronet magazine , “ Mr Smith pass to Venus , ” which feature a Venus where dinosaur zoos and big game Hunt were a reality .
I ca n’t help but check with the letter author who hoped to book transit into space with her dog . I want to see my bagger ’s jowls founder around in zero gravity .
The Hayden Letters[viaSmithsonian – Paleofuture ]
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