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(See here for some of the other space science booklets in the series: http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/sciser.html )
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Stone, Marvin L. Man in space. Garden City: New York. 64 p. 21 cm.
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I had a subscription to these when I was a child. Since the booklets were so small every few booklets you would get a maroon and silver case you could store them in on your bookshelf. You also got a spine label (see above) with your stamps that you could glue on the case to remember which booklets were in which box.
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When you subscribed as a promotion they also had a poster that I remember well (see below)
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These were favorites of mine because I had "made" them and I read them over and over.
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Not much other art in the book but this possible space station also inflamed my imagination
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