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A Vibrator-Shaped Space Station (1961)

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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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