Olney, Ross. Americans in Space : Five years of manned space travel. Camden, NJ : Nelson. (123 p.) 23 cm. Cloth, DJ. 1966
Mostly illustrated with B&W drawings and photographs. A basic history of American spaceflight May 5, 1961 until 1966. Mostly historical but the last chapter project the future moon-landing and solar system exploration. Also 1970 edition.
Here are a few of the "futuristic" illustrations of interest.
Don't you wish we had VEMs and MEMs?
This book was (is?) in my high school’s library. I checked it out a bunch of times. Your 1966 date might be wrong:this copy had missions through Apollo 13.
ReplyDeleteThere was also a 1970 edition. That may be the one you remember.
DeleteIf you recall the ‘Pilgrim Observer’
ReplyDeletehttp: // ninfinger. org/ models/ kitplans/ mpc9001.html
- you'll see in that ‘supplemental booklet’ what G Harry Stine was thinking of doing back in 1970, for that 1979 ‘slingshot’ mission.
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