We Land on the Moon Coloring Book Based on NASA's Project Apollo : Exploration of the Moon. [Happiness Coloring Book Series] Solar Communications, Inc 1969. 114 pp. #1053
This is the best of the books for great futuristic illustrations of Moon exploration. They chose many of the possible vehicles and habitats.
The vehicle is familiar but I enjoy the moon backdrop.
The planned city seems rather generic rather than moon-based (pun intended)
I do wonder about the underwater laboratory in the moon crater lake. It seems like a lot of water to get to the moon but it would be a shield. It also might be copied from very different futuristic illustrations. But heck anything to get dolphins on the moon!
I don't remember seeing this concept before, using the command module as a base for surveying instruments.
I also enjoy the "square" space station.
We Land on the Moon Coloring Book Based on NASA's Project Apollo : Satellites and planets. [Happiness Coloring Book Series] Solar Communications, Inc 1969. 114 pp. #1052
One of the things most interesting is that in order to fill up the books they found as many space concepts they could and created illustrations of them.
So while this book has some satellite illustrations and drawings of the planets, the real treat is a bunch of space station concepts and interplanetary craft:
This concept from the mid-1960s involved hollowing out an asteroid to make it a habitat either for residence or long-term travel. See Islands in Space, by Dandrige M. Cole and Donald W. Cox and the 1965 book which Cole co-authored with Roy Scarfo, ‘Beyond Tomorrow: The Next 50 Years in Space.’
