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OK again I have a beautiful book: To Other Planets by Pavel Klushantsev. (My helpful readers chimed in on this one to help me out.)
This may be my favorite Russian book in terms of illustrations. Until I got this copy I only knew of it from the 1962 Hebrew translation I had found a number of years ago (I had even less luck translating that title).
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From here it talks about launching a space station and heading towards the moon. The space station illustration seems an "interpretation " of the Fred Freeman illustration from the 1954-1956 Collier's series but has its own Russian slant.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMJ59M0xlRfU-oFSSE24bPiQwjSZEvYhjqn2DOoN1bXFrA75ebmSUYsRUiRs2CbORaLarqKrvGJ5EdZVwHOCHufCM7WYIOtVPWLKzpSElYIPaDcpQhV1py2pLW7PwKcZPoMq9AYn6vCw/s400/1959russianspacekids13.jpg)
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I am still not sure how space station designers got the idea for have a 3 prong stations. Two or four makes sense for balance but the 3 prong was developed for the Disney programs so they would not impinge on the Collier's design copyright. They seemed to have corrected that flaw in this illustration.
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The title of the book is To Other Planets. The author, Pavel Klushantsev, is well known Russian SF film director and screenwriter, author of a well-known movie Planet of Storms, reedited for American distribution as Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet.
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