Exploring Space : A True Story of the Rockets of Today and a Glimpse of the Rockets That Are to Come (1958) part 2

A continuation of the paintings from this great space book. See here for part 1
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2015/05/exploring-space-true-story-of-rockets.html

Wyler, Rose. Illustrated by Gergely, Tibor and Solenewitsch, George. Exploring Space : A True Story of the Rockets of Today and a Glimpse of the Rockets That Are to Come. New York: Simon and Schuster. (24 p.) 21 cm.

While some people feel uncomfortable about animals in space, I like that children were told that the way people knew it was safe was because animals did it first (and yes I know it doesn't discuss the ultimate fate of these early explorers)