Childrens Books on Space Travel in the 1960`s - the artworks
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another "content over style" web page from Steve Johnson Cyberheritage
These images are some of my favourite memories of this era, of buying a book at Plymouth North Road Railway Station - at the kiosk on the platform, boarding a steam train, and heading to Portsmouth to see my Uncle George. The train would go what today would be seen as the wrong way as we would go via Bere Alston, Tavistock, Okehampton and Crediton. These books would keep me company on this trip, my favourites being "Planet" and "Outer Space."
Top Row: The Apollo spacecraft was thought to perhaps look like this! Of course as we know it did`nt. But at the time.....
Second Row: L-R, The same Apollo spacecraft is sent to land on Mars!? Yuri Gagarin orbits in Vostok, The anticipated interior of the Apollo Command Module.
Third Row: L-R, Early English space story, carried into space by flying swans by accident, he hoped to make a terrestrial air journey but forgot that the swans migrate to the Moon...! Cyrano de Bergerac flies into space in a sphere with two holes, as the air inside became heated it would expand and escape through one hole and as it did so cold air would rush in from other hole to replace it, continue the cycle and propel the sphere into space.
The rest of the collection are frontcovers...hope you enjoy them! At most they are 350k, but need to be as I guess some of you may want to print them out at good quality.
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