Courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

Here's one of the only Popular Mechanics headlines we've ever believed.  "Mysteries of stars' origin increase with time."  From 1928.

You've heard of the force which holds the celestial bodies in orbit, and here he is, in the Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1917.

From a Soviet Christmas card.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

"Have ball, will orbit": The Vanguard TV-4 Missile, 1958, via the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

You've heard that lines of longitutde and lattitude are imaginary, but this space photograph suggests otherwise.  From the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

Clive Bell suggested that "Art transports us from the world of man's activity to a world of aesthetic exaltation.  For a moment we are shut off from human interests; our anticipations and memories are arrested; we are lifted above the stream of life" (Art, 1914).  Our photo is courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

The space program has long been accused of faking the moon landing, and artificially enlarging the celestial orb in photographs doesn't help their credibility.  (As any photographer will attest, the moon never looks this big in a photo without special effects.  You don't have to be a rocket scientist to doctor a photo.)  Our photo is as scanned by the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

119 years before Brexit, the British Empire seceded from Planet Earth to inhabit Planet Victoria (orbiting between the Moon and Earth).  From Pearson's, 1897.

"A ray from the remotest star brings in its heart a secret message to him who can read it," from "A Message from Mars by J. Munroe, in Cassell's, 1895.

The General Dynamics 1964 Mercury Program and time capsule (to be opened in year 2464).  Here's the artist's rendering and the monument being fashioned.

From Les Jeux du Cirque et la Vie Foraine, illustrated by Jules Garnier, 1889.

From Tribune Popular Science by Louis Agassiz, 1874.

From The Story of the Sun, Moon and Stars by Agnes Giberne, 1898.

"I dream'd one night, as some have dream'd before."  From The Loyal Man in the Moon, 1820.