Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)

 

Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!

Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.

Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)

 

This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed scanners! Remember you can "click" on each image and it will appear larger (and maybe more readable.)

Cox, Donald W. and Michael Stoiko. Illustrated by Kocher, W.A. Rocketry through the Ages. Philadelphia: Winston. (41 p.) 1959.

Rocketry Through the Ages (1959)

In the spirit of 4th of July rockets here is Rocketry Through the Ages with red, white and blue illustrations.

Cox, Donald William and Stoiko, Michael. Illustrated by Kocher, W.A. Rocketry through the Ages. Philadelphia: Winston. (41 p.) 24 cm.

The format of this book is 1 page of text with 1 full page illustration. It covers the history of past, present and future rockets. Examples range from Wan-Hu and his rocket chair, to Hermes, Viking, Thor, Jupiter C, Atlas, X-15, solar sails, manned nuclear rockets, and photon rockets.

As the rockets moved into the future we get some incredible illustrations.

It showed a version of a landing on the Moon.

What is even more fun is

And of course (as the space flight progression leads us) on to the stars: