Children's Digest "The Perils of Space" (Sept 1961)

There were a number of magazines for children in the 1950s and 1960s. Those of us who grew up at that time remember these as home reading (gifted by relatives), summer reading, or supplemental reading in school (or doctor's and dentist's offices).

Children Digest Sept 1961 "The Perils of Space" Mortimer Lawrence. Illustrated by Dave Klein. From:

THE ROCKET'S RED GLARE. THE CHALLENGE OF OUTER SPACE. By Mortimer
W. Lawrence. Illustrated with photographs. New York: Coward·McCann, Inc. 210 Madison Ave., 1960. pp. 121.

 I appreciate his expression, "Gs" aren't fun.

Radiation in between does not worry an astronaut that much. If he is flying fast enough, all it can do is bleach his hair!

 I am not sure how long it would take for a rocket ship to "wear away" even if it is a hazard.

A nice snapshot of what the space race felt like at the time.