Space Travel (1960) / All About Satellites and Space Travel (1958)

Today is the Cantonese translation of the book All About Satellites and Space Travel, David Dietz (1958).

The Cantonese is translated for me by Google Translate so I apologize for the mistakes.

I am always looking for these children's books that got translated into other languages. This one is interesting to me since it seem like the children's level material is represented as a way for children to learn more about the future of space travel. It does not look at all like a children's book.

The book title and citation information seems to translate as:

Dez, David (sp?). Space Travel. Translated from English by Lo Tiande. Garden Road, Hong Kong : World Today. (135 p.) 1960.

TRANSLATED Back Cover: "Traveling to space is no longer a dream. Today's youth have the hope of traveling in the boundless universe. You should be prepared. David Dietz is a world-renowned author of popular science readings, and has won the Pulitzer Prize for scientific articles for many years for Scribes-Howard newspapers. This book uses simple text to describe the process of human study of space, with a popular and detailed introduction to the principles and development of tools used for space travel such as rockets, artificial satellites, and spacecraft."

Here are some scans of the 1958 book:

To The Moon By Rocket Ship (1940)

 

A bit of obscure ephemera today. In 1940 the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia had a program they called "To the Moon by Rocket Ship." It was a program for adults and children describing the science of what it would be like to go to the Moon. It also explored the formation of craters (thought volcanic at the time.) They also sold this souvenir booklet of the program.

So from a hot summer night some 85 years ago we take you on an exploration of the Moon.

Franklyn Institute. To The Moon by Rocket Ship. Philadelphia, PE: Fels Planetarium.  (10 p.) Aug and Sept 1940.