Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)

 

The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration for the book and have added those to the pages.

I blogged about this book (1958 English copy) back in 2015

Part 1: https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2015/05/exploring-space-true-story-of-rockets.html

Part 2: https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2015/05/exploring-space-true-story-of-rockets_8.html

This one is:

Wyler, Rose. Illustrated by Gergely, Tibor and Solenewitsch, George. Translated by Anda Amir. Exploring Space : A True Story of the Rockets of Today and a Glimpse of the Rockets That Are to Come. Israel : Amos. (24 p.) 19.5 cm. 1960.

Man and Space (1970)

Another of those non-fiction children's books that everyone seemed to have but most are forgotten: 

I, like many, subscribed (via my parents) to the "Life Science Library". These arrived about every other month with a wonderful new science book written at a very general level.

These were nicely illustrated and almost authoritative enough to use as a source for my grade school reports.

This one was originally published in English in 1964 and updated in 1969.  But what I am sharing is the 1969 edition that was translated to Hebrew and published in 1970.  Since I mostly post the illustrations, I wanted to share how these books were world-wide in their impact.

Just to help orient you here is the English table of contents:

But as I said here are a few of the wonderful and nostalgic illustrations:

 They started with explaining the concept of staging rockets.

 A nice cross-section of a V-2 type of rocket

 Illustration of the Nova rocket program and possible capsule configuration

 Showing how satellites were used to to explore the planets and how the photographic data was transmitten back and converted by computers.

 A nice history of space suit concepts

 An excellent cross-section of an Apollo suit.

The next stage in space?

 The books also had illustrations at the side of the text. Here are a few of my favorites including what life on other planets might be like based on conditions found there.