Establishing a vision for the future : forecasting potential enemy threats, 1944-1952 -- Pushing the state-of-the-art : justifying the need for routine access to space, April 1952-May 1955 -- ...

The other space-themed objects pictured on the blanket include Telstar, the communications satellite launched in 1962; the X-15, a NASA-US Air Force experimental rocket plane program that ran from ...