Conquering the Sun's Empire (1963) part 2

This is the second part of my posting about this book. For part 1 see here:
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/06/conquering-suns-empire-1963-part-1.html

Ordway, Frederick I and Wakeford, Ronald C. Illustrated by Lange, Harry H-K. Conquering the Sun’s Empire. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co. 128 pp. 23 cm. Cloth, DJ.

Mars from one of its moons

 Inside the Mars colony

 One use for the asteroid belt is to help with the interplanetary distances.

 I love all the hardware in the next few illustrations.  Rarely do we see how different planets might be used or explored.

 Everyone goes to Titan, go someplace new this summer: Callisto!

 I am not sure about manned expeditions exploring inside Saturn's rings. Above or below maybe, but not in them.

 When was the last time you saw a ship exploring Uranus? (ha ha He said Uranus)

The whole book has some great inspirational images. There was a similar book by the same author/artist pair called: "Life in other solar systems". Not as many interesting illustrations but still worth seeking out.

I was asked if this book is available. I am a big fan of the used book site bookfinder.com (http://www.bookfinder.com/). I see several copies available.

Conquering The Sun's Empire (1963) part 1

This is not a young children's book but rather a book for high school students about man's exploration of the solar system.  It is filled with truly beautiful space art by Harry H-K Lange. Mr. Lange was involved with some of the concept drawings for the film 2001, as well as illustrating Von Braun book about the history of rocketry. He worked with Frederick Ordway on a couple of books but these illustrations are very special and not many have seen them.

There are so many illustrations in the book that I wanted to share that I have split them into 2 postings, so look for the rest later this week.

Ordway, Frederick I and Wakeford, Ronald C. Illustrated by Lange, Harry H-K. Conquering the Sun’s Empire. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co. 128 pp. 23 cm. Cloth, DJ.

 The main point of this book seems to be discussing the conditions found on the planets in our solar system and how we will/could  explore them.

 First discussed was exploration of the Moon

 Next they start at Mercury and the conditions found there

 Then onto Venus.  It was still not clear what the surface of Venus was like beneath all the clouds.

Soon we will continue to Mars and out into the solar system.

You and Science : Science for better living (1955)

Don't you love a science textbook with an atomic reactor on the cover? As part of our brave new age of atomic power was getting science into school. This was a high school textbook which included some interesting text and illustrations about space flight.

Brandwein, Paul Franz. You and science: Science for better living. New York : Harcourt Brace & Company,  624 p. 1955.

 First off was the widely known naval spacesuit.

 Chapter 8 had a few illustrations about our home planet and this really funky illustration how everything moves through space.

 And of course was the chapter "Space, Our new frontier". It is not enough to say that space is a new place for man to explore.  Space travel was the next railroad. We would tame this frontier and make the rockets run on time.

 This Rolf Klep illustration done originally for the Collier's series was a great way to suggest that the plans for the rocket were already done, we just hadn't gotten around to building it yet.

I don't usually post text from these books but the discussion of how soon this will happen and how much it will cost illustrates that the "space agenda" was being actively taught long before the general public was thinking that this was possible. I specifically like "the goals of the spacemen"

"Our guess is that some day all these things will come to pass. We hope you will live long enough to see it because we do not think the conquest of space is just around the corner but around many, many corners. Maybe you will be brave and lucky enough and clever enough to help it happen. It will take much hard work."

Space (1983)

Having trouble with motivation to get new stuff scanned in so instead here is something "out of scope". Usually I concentrate on books 1945-1975, but when I find something that has the right feel I want to include it.

This is a 1983 book in Hebrew that contains drawings to "colour, cut-out, and play with." It was made in Israel by Buki Toys Ltd. The book is actually a tablet of line drawings on cardbord and the book cover is actually a sheath that the "pad" fits in. There are 12 pages (one sided)

I like the mixture of fantasy and reality.

 The first looks like a starship to me

 The second a stylized capsule

 A lunar rover

A space walk

A LEM

A multi-stage rocket



 A "what do I know?"

A satellite dish

Collecting samples

Man and the Space Frontier (1962)

I love this cover.

Stine, G. Harry. Illustrated by Zacks, Lewis. Man and the Space Frontier. New York: Alfred A Knopf. (149 p.) 24 cm.  This book address the human factors that need to be accounted for in planning for space exploration, pressure, heat, g-forces, sound etc. Illustrations of  astronauts, a rocket and a space station.

The Red Planet (part 4) (1961)

As part of my hunt for non-fiction stuff about space flight I have a few comics books in the collections. In this case the illustrations were hidden inside The World Around Us: Undersea Adventures (#30) 1961. The World Around Us was Classics Illustrated's non-fiction series of comics. While not unique it was one of the few companies that published non-fiction and fiction comics.

As you can see from the cover, this issue contained part 4 of "The Red Planet". This was a 3 page feature about Mars and its features. It was used as filler to expand the size of the issue. I was lucky enough to pick up a page of art from this story which was drawn by Angelo Torres (a well know artist from EC and other comics).

Each panel is a scene from a trip taken from the Moon to a manned landing on Mars. The first panel (above) shows the take off from our Moonbase. It points out that to get to Mars you need to leave the Earth-Moon system before Mars is closest to Earth.

This panel points out how it is not a straight trip but rather a great curve. A optimal least fuel/least time trajectory.

We are reminded that Mars is flat. You will see dunes and craters and occasional hills (unless you land near the many canyons).

This final panel is one of my favorites as humans stand on another world. This was the 2nd page of the 3 page installment. For the 1st and 3rd pages that I did not purchase see below.