{"id":477,"date":"2012-09-10T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/09\/10\/wernher-von-brauns-martian-chronicles\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:48:08","slug":"wernher-von-brauns-martian-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/09\/10\/wernher-von-brauns-martian-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Wernher von Braun\u2019s Martian Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YDj63V9Y9_A\/UE0wIg-Wy4I\/AAAAAAAAFbI\/y3u1WUj__cA\/s1600\/1954-april-inside1-sm.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YDj63V9Y9_A\/UE0wIg-Wy4I\/AAAAAAAAFbI\/y3u1WUj__cA\/s1600\/1954-april-inside1-sm.jpeg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-IBBMSy2wr9A\/UE0wJl8QSNI\/AAAAAAAAFbQ\/Sdh1GFzFLKo\/s1600\/1954-april-inside2-sm.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-IBBMSy2wr9A\/UE0wJl8QSNI\/AAAAAAAAFbQ\/Sdh1GFzFLKo\/s1600\/1954-april-inside2-sm.jpeg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-BXx9Z61SmvU\/UE0wMWwCFgI\/AAAAAAAAFbg\/Hy4osyBrNA4\/s1600\/1954-mars-red-sm.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-BXx9Z61SmvU\/UE0wMWwCFgI\/AAAAAAAAFbg\/Hy4osyBrNA4\/s1600\/1954-mars-red-sm.jpeg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-GP--5p5OVjc\/UE0wNUrr3AI\/AAAAAAAAFbo\/KOCq4yrEf60\/s1600\/1954-martian-snow-sm.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-GP--5p5OVjc\/UE0wNUrr3AI\/AAAAAAAAFbo\/KOCq4yrEf60\/s1600\/1954-martian-snow-sm.jpeg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-KlxaTZ4KbNE\/UE0wOXIm80I\/AAAAAAAAFbw\/5pbIevdobt0\/s1600\/1954-on-mars.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-KlxaTZ4KbNE\/UE0wOXIm80I\/AAAAAAAAFbw\/5pbIevdobt0\/s1600\/1954-on-mars.jpeg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-AV5lBbNRmVo\/UE0wPYOSdXI\/AAAAAAAAFb4\/xohR4I5Sxbo\/s1600\/mars-to-earth-sm.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-AV5lBbNRmVo\/UE0wPYOSdXI\/AAAAAAAAFb4\/xohR4I5Sxbo\/s1600\/mars-to-earth-sm.jpeg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>From 1952 until 1954, the weekly magazine Collier\u2019s published a series of articles on space exploration spread out across eight issues. Several of the articles were written by Wernher von Braun, the former Third Reich rocket scientist who began working for the U.S. after WWII. \u00a0The Collier\u2019s series is said to have inspired countless popular visions of space travel. This impact was in no small part due to the gorgeous, colorful illustrations done by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chesley_Bonestell\" target=\"_blank\">Chesley Bonestell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1988\/06\/08\/obituaries\/fred-freeman-graphic-artist-dies-at-81.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Freeman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/1669\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Rolf Klep<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1952 until 1954, the weekly magazine Collier\u2019s published a series of articles on space exploration spread out across eight issues. Several of the articles were written by Wernher von Braun, the former Third Reich rocket scientist who began working for the U.S. after WWII. \u00a0The Collier\u2019s series is said to have inspired countless popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}