• By Lynn Peril
    Jun 5, 2008 1:30 PM 2,497
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    A Vibrator-Shaped Space Station (1961)

    In the 1960s, Fortune magazine was filled with ads from corporations eager to capitalize on the fact that produced one astro-widget or another for the space program. Usually these are somewhat familiar looking - Apollo capsules or LEMs - but here's one that doesn't seem to have made it off the adman's drawing board. Boldly eschewing the familiar phallic rocket shape, it's smoother, rounder, altogether more like a space-age vibrator. Get a closer look after the jump.


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