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"The Conquest of Space" Bonestell Color Illustrations Index
by Melvin Schuetz
Many people received their introduction to the art of Chesley Bonestell by way of coming across a copy of the famous 1949 Willy Ley/Chesley Bonestell book, "The Conquest of Space".
Of the 58 Bonestell illustrations in "Conquest", 43 were first published in magazines, between 1944 and 1948. Whereas a majority of the illustrations in CONQUEST were reproduced in black and white, almost all of those early magazine appearances were in color.
Presented here is a table of those 43 illustrations, along with the names and dates of the magazines where they first appeared.
| Transcontinental rocket ship taking off from Long Island |
Pic, Oct. 1947 |
| Twenty-five miles above New Jersey |
Coronet, Aug. 1946 |
| A hundred and twenty-five miles above Williamsport, Pa. |
Pic, Oct. 1947 |
| Five hundred miles above central Nebraska |
Pic, Oct. 1947 |
| Two hundred and fifty miles above the Nevada-Utah border |
Pic, Oct. 1947 |
| Flying to Europe, rocket ship 200 miles above the Atlantic |
Life, Mar. 4, 1946 |
| Circling the earth outside the atmosphere, over England |
Life, Mar. 4, 1946 |
| Four thousand miles above the surface of the earth, looking west |
Life, Mar. 4, 1946 |
| "Zero hour minus five" - preparing the ship for a trip to the moon |
Pic, Sep. 1948 |
| Fifteen thousand miles out from the earth, coasting without power |
Life, Mar. 4, 1946 |
| Thirty-five thousand miles out |
Coronet, Aug. 1946 |
| Forty-five hundred miles from the moon |
Mechanix Illustrated, Sep. 1945 |
| One of the most impressive mountain ranges on the moon |
Pic, Sep. 1948 |
| An eclipse of the sun by the earth |
Pic, Sep. 1948 |
| Two hundred miles above the moon |
Life, Mar. 4, 1946 |
| Fifty miles above the moon |
Pic, Sep. 1948 |
| Fifty miles above San Francisco Bay |
Life, Mar. 4, 1946 |
| Beginnings of the lunar base; the weekly transport to earth being readied |
Pic, June 1947 |
| The crater Aristarchus, the brightest spot on the moon |
Life, Mar. 4, 1946 |
| Promontory Laplace in foreground, promontory Heraclides on horizon |
Pic, Sep. 1948 |
| A study in apparent sizes; constellation Orion and earth, in lunar sky |
Life, Mar. 4, 1946 |
| The Great Valley of the "Alps," from a ship 10 miles above the moon |
Pic, Sep. 1948 |
| The rocket ship some 10 miles above the lunar pole |
Mechanix Illustrated, Sep. 1945 |
| Standing on a high peak of the eastern wall of the crater Copernicus |
Pic, Sep. 1948 |
| Ship 25 miles above Mt. Pico, which is 10,000 feet high |
Life, Mar. 4, 1946 |
| View from the rim of the crater Theophilus into its interior |
Life, Mar. 4, 1946 |
| Ship ready for return trip |
Astounding Science Fiction, July 1948 |
| View from spaceship's cabin, sometime during 1985 |
Coronet, Aug. 1946 |
| Surface of Venus |
Air Trails and Science Frontiers, Sep. 1947 |
| Another view of Mars from Deimos |
Coronet, Aug. 1946 |
| Mars as seen from Phobos, its nearer moon |
Coronet, Aug. 1946 |
| Saturn as it appears in the dark sky of its satellite
Japetus |
Life, May 29, 1944 |
| Saturn seen from Phoebe, its outermost satellite |
Life, May 29, 1944 |
| Saturn as it appears from its satellite Dione |
Life, May 29, 1944 |
| The rings of Saturn seen from a position on the planet at 15 ½ degrees northern latitude |
Life, May 29, 1944 |
| Saturn as seen from its satellite Titan |
Life, May 29, 1944 |
| Saturn as seen from its satellite Mimas |
Life, May 29, 1944 |
| Close-up of another sun: the double star Mira |
Astounding Science Fiction, Apr. 1948 |
| What would happen if a very large meteorite scored a hit on Manhattan |
Coronet, July 1947 |
| Martian landscape, eroded mountains in distance |
Air Trails and Science Frontiers, Sep. 1947 |
| Martian landscape, looking toward the pole |
Coronet, Aug. 1946 |
| Jupiter's surface |
Air Trails and Science Frontiers, Sep. 1947 |
| The 200-inch telescope |
Science Illustrated, June 1947 |
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A former satellite controller in the USAF and private industry (Hughes Communications), Melvin H. Schuetz has been on the staff of the Baylor University Libraries since 1994. He lives in Waco, Texas, with his wife, Carol. He has researched and collected publications from around the world containing Bonestell space art for 35 years. Mr. Schuetz holds the position of Archivist with Bonestell Space Art, an organization established over thirty years ago to officially represent the artist.
Schuetz is the author of "A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology", a bibliography citing some 750 publications where Bonestell's space art appeared over five decades time. His website, describing his archive, is found here.
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