Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera
Non-fiction children's space flight stuff 1945-1975.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
"A Quick Trip to Mars" from Children's Playmate (May 1955)
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This is a peculiar bit of ephemera for you. Since fictional space flight programs were big among children in the 1950s, there was a pop...
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Colliers Part 2 : Oct 18, 1952
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I have mentioned before that the AIAA Houston section is digitally reprinting the series of Colliers magazines in their Horizons newsle...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
What Will We Do With The Moon? Popular Science April (1952)
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Happy Halloween and what can be spookier than a Moon we don't know what to do with and a dead artist? From Popular Science April...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Walt Disney's Disneyland Game (1959)
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I love Disneyland space stuff and in the 1950s it was one of THE places to go if you wanted to experience our possible "tomorrowlan...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The Eagle Has Landed (1970)
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Unfortunately I was out of town when Neil Armstrong died on August 25, 2012 so I didn't get to post about it. His deeds and those of...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Moving Ahead : Easy growth in reading (1945)
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We tend to think of all that "brave new world of the future" excitement starting in the 1950s. However here is a 6th grade schoo...
Monday, October 1, 2012
To Other Planets (1962)
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This is yet another in the series of posts about (virtually) the same Russian children's space book. I have found a reprinted and (...
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