Home in Orbit (1975)

A last book for space station month from Russia. This one has a number of fantastical vision of working in orbit.

Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voshivi, Yevgeny and Yuria Kiselev. Дом На Орбите (Home in Orbit.) Kiev: Veselka. (80 p.) 1975

Let's Go On A Space Shuttle (1975)

There were a variety of the "Let's Go On A..."  This one has some very nice drawings of the proposed space shuttle.

Chester, Michael. Illustrated by Micale, Albert. Let’s Go on a Space Shuttle. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. (45 p.) 1975.

 I like the hug for the children of the returning astronaut. I have finished watching the first season of "For All Mankind" and the moments of the impact on children of having an astronaut parent are touching to watch. It also reminds us how frequent they hoped the launches would be. This particular astronaut only gets 30 days on the ground before he needs to launch again.

I also like this shuttle to shuttle rescue mission.

Russian Popular Science Magazine (1973)

To celebrate Yuri's (Gagarin) Night (April 12, 1961) here is an interesting space-related issue of a Russian popular youth science magazine.  It tried to compare the Russian visions of space flight in the 50s and 60s with that of 1973.

The title of the magazine is roughly: ТЕХНИКА МОЛОДЕЖИ  = YOUTH TECHNOLOGY  Issue 4, 1973

 SPACE WALKING

 SPACE STATIONS

 MOON PROBES

 WORKING IN ORBIT

 BURAN SHUTTLE (Well Not Really), JUST A VISION OF FUTURE SPACE SHUTTLES

 TWO NICE DESIGNS OF OUR FUTURE WORLD

Home on Orbit (1975)

This is "Home on Orbit" (roughly translated by the book dealer) published in Ukrainian in 1979 and originally in Russian in 1975.  

Home on Orbit.  22cm x 20cm (8.8" x 8") and 104 pages. 1975.

The book covers the history of space exploration in Russia up through the 1st planned joint US/Russia space misson: Soyuz-Apollo. 

  One of the most interesting parts of this book is when it starts discussing space stations.  It first covers the Russian and American efforts to live in space and the possible benefit of having a station there.

 It goes on to discuss what space stations in the future might be like.  It shows a nice pictorial history of what designs have been considered in the past.

The book then goes on to discuss how a space shuttle system would work to keep the station permanently staffed. 

Finally it shows what a Russsian space station of the future would look like. The level of detail reminds me of the old Collier's illustrations. The Russian youth of 1975 were also told that this future was just around the corner.