Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)

 

A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic asperations. This one is probably dull to many of you but since I know some current aerospace engineers who had no idea in grade school what they might do.

Also this has a nice couple of pages on women in aerospace, which was a newer phenonium. 

Splaver, Sarah. Some Day I’ll be an Aerospace Engineer. New York: Hawthorn Books. (80 p.) 1967. 

Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)

  

Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.

Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.

World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)

 

A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space education" or maybe just a cool souvenir that you could buy your child to keep busy with.

I have gotten a lot of comments over the years since I posted it 13 years ago about the level of art and effort that someone had to execute to draw so many individual stamps.  Hopefully this is new to you or you are happy to have bigger and better scans of it.

Levitt, I. M. Intra-Space Stamp Album. Philadelphia: Edward Stern and Co. (22 p.) 1953.