Sky Masters of the Space Force – The Complete Sunday Strips in Color (1959-1960)

Welcome to the reference page for Kirby Museum Press’s Sky Masters of the Space Force: The Complete Sunday Strips in Color, 2nd Edition.

Below you’ll see links and references referred to in the book. Most of these are in the book or PDF as QR codes or links.

Page 20 – Strip #1

Conquest of Space series in Collier’s March 22, 1952 issue

John Sisson’s Dreams of Space Blog provides:

https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/03/colliers-march-22-1952-man-will-conquer.html

Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Will_Conquer_Space_Soon

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics provides Collier’s articles in its newsletter:

Low resolution: http://www.aiaahouston.org/Horizons/Horizons_2012_07_and_08.pdf

High resolution: http://www.aiaahouston.org/Horizons/Horizons_2012_07_and_08_high_resolution.pdf

AIAA Newsletter page:
https://www.aiaahouston.org/newsletter/

Page 22 – Strip #3

Disney “Mars & Beyond” on YouTube

Jack Kirby Museum’s Sky Masters Sundays playlist:

The first episode, thanks to YouTube user @Twomorrowland1950s:

Twomorrowland50’s YouTube playlist:

Page 23 – Strip #4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_6

Page 24 – Strip #5

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics provides Collier’s articles in its newsletter:

Conquest of Space series in Collier’s March 22, 1952 issue “Who owns the Universe?” article.

Scroll to page 36 on the AIAA Houston reprint PDFs

Low resolution: http://www.aiaahouston.org/Horizons/Horizons_2012_07_and_08.pdf

High resolution: http://www.aiaahouston.org/Horizons/Horizons_2012_07_and_08_high_resolution.pdf

Page 25 – Strip #6

Internet Archive provides January 1959 Popular Mechanics, page 122-123:

https://archive.org/details/sim_popular-mechanics_1959-01_111_1/page/122/mode/2up?view=theater

Page 26 – Strip #7

Rocket to the Moon, book by Berquast & Hull

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015065663968&seq=1

Page 27 – Strip #8

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics provides Collier’s articles in its newsletter:

Conquest of Space series in Collier’s February 28, 1953 issue

Direct link to smaller (low resolution) Page 56 

http://www.aiaahouston.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Horizons_2013_01_and_02_pg_54_and_55_Colliers_series_introduction.pdf

Full newsletter low resolution: http://www.aiaahouston.org/Horizons/Horizons_2013_01_and_02_low_res.pdf

Full newsletter high resolution: http://www.aiaahouston.org/Horizons/Horizons_2012_07_and_08_high_resolution.pdf

Page 28 – Strip #9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_G._Haley

Page 29 – Strip #10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_suit

See links for Page 27 – Strip #8 above to February 28, 1953 Collier’s.

Page 30 – Strip #11

National Archives and Records Administration provides “BIOASTRONAUTICS RESEARCH“ on Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.68700

Especially at 11:43

Charlie Dean Archives provides “BIOASTRONAUTICS RESEARCH – 1960s US Air Force Educational Documentary” on YouTube:

At 11:50

Page 31 – Strip #12

British Pathé provides “News in Flashes – USA (1959)” on YouTube

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorski_S-60

Page 32 – Strip #13

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP-1

Page 33 – Strip #14

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt

Page 36 – Strip #17

HathiTrust provides Rocket to the Moon, book by Berquast & Hull:

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065663968

Page 37 – Strip #18

Air Force Academy Association of Graduates provides “Air Force Academy History” on YouTube

Page 38 – Strip #19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Towers

Page 39 – Strip #20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance_satellite

Pae 40 – Strip #21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoverer_14

Page 41 – Strip #22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Space_Force_Station

Page 42 – Strip #23

miSci – museum of innoovation and science provides “First Footage Taken in Space” on YouTube:

Page 43 – Strip #24

SITE DOWN 31 Aug 2024

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18502/zero-g-devices-and-weightlessness-simulators

Page 44 – Strip #25

Smithsonian Magazine provides the article “How Do You Shield Astronauts and Satellites From Deadly Micrometeorites?” by Colin Schultz, dated June 28, 2013:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-do-you-shield-astronauts-and-satellites-from-deadly-micrometeorites-3911799

Page 45 – Strip #26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubertus_Strughold

Page 46 – Strip #27

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Into_Space

Page 47 – Strip #28

Internet Archive provides Popular Science, June 1959:

https://archive.org/details/1955-to-1959-popular-science/1959-06%20Popular%20Science/page/56/mode/2up

Page 48 – Strip #29

US National Archives “Avrocar Continuation Test Program and Terrain Test Program, 06/01/1960 – 06/14/1961” on YouTube

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar

Page 49 – Strip #30

The Henry Ford provides a photo of little person Henry Bedow:

https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/212496

Page 50 – Strip #31

Retro Space HD provides SATURN  I SA-1 Launch (1961/10/27) on YouTube

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(rocket_family)

Page 51 – Strip #32

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Rocketry

Page 52 – Strip #33

CriticalPast provides “C-119 snags the Space Capsule from Discovery XIV in mid air. HD Stock Footage” on YouTube:

Page 53 – Strip #34

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rockets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile

Page 55 – Strip #36

John Sission’s Dreams of Space blog provides the Weekly Reader article ”The Weather is Changing”:

https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2017/04/my-weekly-reader-oct-5-1959-weather-is.html

Page 57 – Strip #38

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSE_Kriens

Page 58 – Strip #39

Classic Airliners & Vintage Pop Culture provides “Douglas C-133B Cargomaster – “Unloading the Atlas Missile” – 1960“ on YouTube:

Page 59 – Strip #40

Internet Archive provides Popular Science, July 1959:

https://archive.org/details/1955-to-1959-popular-science/1959-07%20Popular%20Science/page/80/mode/2up

Page 60 – Strip #41

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablation

Page 61 – Strip #42

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_tape

Page 62 – Strip #43

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon)

Page 64 – Strip #45

rocket.aero provides “Bomarc Launch Tests 1959” on YouTube:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIM-10_Bomarc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD

Page 65 – Strip #46

Charlie Dean Archives provides “1959 US Air Force Educational Film: Mission – Sonic Boom” on YouTube:

Page 66 – Strip #47

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics provides Collier’s articles in its newsletter:

Conquest of Space series in Collier’s March 14, 1953 issue “Man’s Survival in Space?” article.

Scroll to page 46 on the AIAA Houston reprint PDFs

Low resolution: http://www.aiaahouston.org/Horizons/Horizons_2013_05_and_06_low_resolution.pdf

High resolution: http://www.aiaahouston.org/Horizons/Horizons_2013_05_and_06.pdf

Page 67 – Strip #48

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-20_Dyna-Soar

Page 68 – Strip #49

Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum provides:

https://www.classicaircraft.org/Lockheed-F104G.html

Page 71 – Strip #52

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_P-3

Page 72 – Strip #53

Internet Archive provides Sky and Telescope, June 11, 1952:

https://archive.org/details/sim_sky-and-telescope_1952-06_11_8/page/192/mode/2up

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– p. 79

– p. 80

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