Senior Weekly Reader 1968, Sept 11

 

In the Fall of 1968 the launch of Apollo 7 was imminant. High School students were given a breakdown of what was to come after the lauch was delayed becasue of the Apollo 1 disaster.

What do you think about spending money for space work?

Secrets of Space Exploration (1958)

 

Celebrating 2,883,898 views of my Dreams of Space site today. I started this Blog in Feb of 2009 so now it is over 17 years old. (Drinking party next year!)

My first "space" book in Arabic. I am pretty sure that it was more for adults and from the illustrations may be a translation of a Russian book. It still fascinates me that spaceflight is so knew that people published space books for the layperson to explain the basics of space flight. Finding these book in many languages convinces me that the "space race" was global as people tried to understand what had changed with Sputnik launches.

So it is a bit of an oddity and can't be very common or well known. 

Sharaf, Dr. Abdulaziz Tareeh. Secrets of Space Exploration. ( كتاب أسرار غزو الفضاء الأقمار الصناعية Arabic) (101 p.) 1958. 

Illustration of Sputnik satellite

A Russian space station?

A more traditional Russian space station

Maintain gravity on a longer trip using centripetal force.

My favorite illustration in the book. A Moon lander with return ship.

Getting to Mars

Getting to Mercury and Venus