My Weekly Reader (Current Events) 1963, Sept 30

 

Here is an issue of Current Events. I think this was a weekly newspaper for high school students (an advanced version of My Weekly Reader.) In this issue they discuss "Why should we go to the Moon?" and how much it might cost.

I lived through this time (although I was about 4 years old) but I never heard about Kennedy suggesting we cooperate with the Russians to get to the Moon. (I guess I need to read more space history)

My Weekly Reader 1963 April 1

 

Sixty years ago in 1963 we were looking ahead to Mars and Venus. Secord graders got an insight into what we might explore beyond the Moon.

True Comics, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” )

 

Something old about a trip to the Moon. Celebrating trying another trip to the Moon here is a non-fiction story from 1948. Stuck in an obscure comic book it tells the story of spaceflight to come.

True Comics. No. 80, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” p. 10-15.) Chicago: Parent’s Magazine Press. 28 p. 1948. 

"So that one day, soon, air-line announcers will call out flights going East, West, North, South and Up."