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Planets and Interplanetary Travel (1967) 22 Aug 2013 | 02:31 am
I know many of you had this book and may have forgotten it. For me I had many in the "How and Why" series because they were on sale in supermarkets, especially as paperback copies. So I could ofte.....
Dan Dare's Space Book (1954) part 3 20 Aug 2013 | 04:22 am
This is the last part of my illustrations from the Dan Dare's Space Book (1954). The book had a nice color illustration of a "real" rocket launch. The book goes on to speculate what might be next in o...
Colliers Part 6 : March 7, 1953 15 Aug 2013 | 10:29 pm
The 6th part of the 8 part Colliers "Man will conquesr space soon!" series has been put online in the May/June 2013 issue of IAAA Houston Newsletter "Horizons". This one covers the Collier’s magazine ...
Dan Dare's Space Book (1954) part 2 13 Aug 2013 | 01:41 am
Here is part 1: http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2013/08/dan-dares-space-book-1954-part-1.html More on Dan Dare's Space Book. One of the pleasant surprises when I first opened this book was the il.....
Dan Dare's Space Book (1954) part 1 10 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
This is the first of a couple of posts about Dan Dare's Space Book (1954). Dan Dare was a very famous British comic strip hero in the 1950s and 1960s. His space adventures led many a child to dream of...
A trip through space (1958) 6 Aug 2013 | 04:53 am
A Trip through Space was an obscure coloring book from "YES (Youth Education System) Books". They produced Christian-based learning materials for the home and classroom. I was attracted to this by it...
Messages From Space (1961) 27 Jul 2013 | 03:13 am
It is forgotten often that before we had the first man in space the space race was about launching satellites. The possibility of taking "the high ground" where no one could dispute beacons, cameras,...
National Geographic School Bulletin (1969) 20 Jul 2013 | 02:34 am
We are approaching July 20, 2013. It will have been 44 years since people first landed on the Moon. Even though it is not an international holiday, I still like to take a moment to remember what has ...
Casper Space Ship (August 1972) 17 Jul 2013 | 03:51 am
I have posted about the Apollo 16 mission and its Command Module "Casper" before. http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/12/apollo-16-poster-with-casper-friendly.html http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.c...
Jets (1963) 6 Jul 2013 | 04:50 am
A 1963 printing of a pamphlet called "Jets". In the late 1950s and 1960s Aerospace research included bigger and better jets. This was a classroom pamphlet produced by the National Aerospace Education ...
