Timothy's Space Book (1961)

Allward, Maurice. Illustrated by North, T.E. Timothy's Space Book. London : Collins. (44 p.) 21 cm. Illustrated Boards. 1961

ID. Primary. B&W and color drawings and paintings. Basic text includes a history of space flight, basic rocket theory, and plans for Project Mercury. Contains many beautiful illustrations of rockets, spacesuits, space stations, the surface of the Moon, and the planets.

Here is another lost gem of a children's book.  Maurice Allward was a well known and prolific writer of British non-fiction children's books.

It covers both the, current at the time, space efforts and the potential for future exploration.



Eagle Has Landed: The story of lunar exploration (1970) (part 2)

Finally here is part two of my Sept 27 posting:

http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2013/09/eagle-has-landed-story-of-lunar.html

Dwiggins, Dwight. Eagle has Landed: The Story of Lunar Exploration. San Carlos, CA: Golden Gate Jr. Books. (80 p.) 28 cm. 1970

So many interesting illustrations of possible futures...

 Some of the proposed designs for a shuttle and space vehicles.

Other lunar vehicles that would allow exploration and colonization of the Moon

 

 

Colliers Part 8 : April 30, 1954

The reprinting of the final issue of the 8 part Collier's "Man will conquer space soon!"  series is here.

The 8th part of the 8 part Colliers "Man will conquer space soon!" series has been put online in the September/October 2013 issue of IAAA Houston Newsletter "Horizons". This one covers the Collier’s magazine space articles from April 30, 1954,

Can We Get to Mars? Is There Life on Mars?

There are also a couple of reprints of illustrations published in this blog!

These are the best digital versions of these illustrations you will ever see. Be sure to check them out.
http://www.aiaahouston.org/newsletter/

Vom Feuerpfeil Zum Weltraumschiff (From fire arrow to spaceships) (1953)

For a change of pace a German children's book.

Gartmann, Heinz andTheo Lässig. Vom Feuerpfeil zum Weltraumschiff (From fire arrow to space ships)  München ; Wien : Andermann, (1953)

Heinz Gartmann wrote a number of books about spaceflight in the early 1950s.  This one has a few nice illustrations showing younger readers what the current state of rocket research was.

I like these next few illustrations, especially showing the proposed super rocket against German and American landmarks.

The book was mostly factual but did show a bit of the Bonestell space flight progression that could lead to a landing on the moon.

 

Colliers Part 7 : June 25, 1953

The 7th part of the 8 part Colliers "Man will conquer space soon!" series has been put online in the July/August 2013 issue of IAAA Houston Newsletter "Horizons". This one covers the Collier’s magazine space articles from June 25, 1953,

The Baby Space Station: First step in the conquest of space

There are also a couple of reprints of illustrations published in this blog!

These are the best digital versions of these illustrations you will ever see. Be sure to check them out.

http://www.aiaahouston.org/newsletter/

About Moon and About Rocket (1966)

 

 

 This is actually the second edition of this 1964 Russian book that I have already blogged about here:

http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2011/03/russian-space-book-1964.html

So I will try to post images from this book that you may not have seen before.

 

 

I like the abstract quality of these drawings. 

 

This has a great deal of resemblance to the Apollo Command module configuration.

 

Finally a reminder that at the time it was still a race to the moon.

Major Jet's Magic Paint Set: Everything you need to color exciting pictures of Major Jet's experimental rockets (1952)

In the early 1950s a breakfast cereal called "Sugar Jets" featured premiums around Major Jet.  I had posted about a 1954 premium here:

http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2013/02/sugar-jets-major-jet-filmovision-1954.html


The title of this one: "Major Jet's Magic Paint Set: Everything you need to color exciting pictures of Major Jet's experimental rockets (1952)" is almost longer than the actual 4 page item.

It consisted of the cover, 3 pages you could "color", and a sheet of water color paints that you could use a wet brush on.

 The rocket designs are not that innovative but the illustrations show rockets (orbiting?) above the earth's surface along with the caption promising that rockets would be flying to the moon in 20 years

 
This caption also points out that "...by the time you are grown-up rockets will be as common as our airliners of today. Perhaps you will even hop a rocket to Mars or Venus"

Happy Jets!!!

P.S. Are those kids in the cockpit?