Flying Saucers Magazine, May 1959

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The cover of this May 1959 issue of Flying Saucers: The Magazine of Space Conquest has retained its pleasant garishness even after the passage of fifty-five years. The illustration, a scene from the 1950 movie Destination Moon, shows astronauts in their spacecraft during their perilous journey to and from the moon (I believe that the one fellow is actually dispensing a space sickness pill, although it looks like he's performing dental work).

Raymond A. Palmer, who authored books on flying saucers and edited Amazing Stories and Fate magazines, was also the editor of Flying Saucers.