So welcome to Dreams of Space's celebration of the anniversary of the first Moon landing! I thought I would start off with a 1953 book about landing on the moon. This book was also published under the title of Tom Corbett's Wonder Book of Space. Even though I keep the fiction load of this blog down, the painted illustrations in here make it one of the great inspirational books of the early 1950s. I figure the readers of this were about 18 or 19 when we landed on the Moon. Did they have any idea that fiction would become the future so fast?
Martin, Marcia. Illustrated by Frank Vaughn. Tom Corbett's wonder book of space / Tom Corbett: A Trip to the Moon. New York, Wonder Books. 18 p. 21 cm.
It has one of my favorite quotes: Then let's go back. The Earth is much prettier than the Moon."
See you next week with more moon landing stuff
I was 7 when this was published. Never saw it at the time; didn't get into reading about space travel and science fiction until I was 10, 3 years later. Haven't stopped since!
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