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Rodina
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From: Lafayette, CA
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 05-12-2005 12:10 PM
  
http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/john.htm Check this out. |
Glint
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From: New Windsor, Maryland USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 05-12-2005 04:27 PM
Thanks for posting this link. When I was a kid I had an earlier version of the "You will go to the Moon" than the one featured at that site and looks like this one  This past weekend I picked up the following along with about 80 other books: - 1954 German language edition of von Braun/Ley/Whipple's "Conquest of the Moon" still with its original dust jacket. - 1951 printing of Bonestell's "The Conquest of Space" still with its original dust jacket - 1950 printing of above book Magazines, including LIFE's Apollo 11 special edition, LOOK's Apollo 8 special edition, and several Trend and Mechanix Illustrated magazines, including this beautiful one: 
September 1945 Mechanix Illustrated. Cover story "Rocket to the Moon" by Willy Ley. They're not of extraordinary monetary value (and the entire bunch was obtained for free!) but they do make for intensely interesting reading
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andrex
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 05-13-2005 12:58 PM
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They're not of extraordinary monetary value (and the entire bunch was obtained for free!) but they do make for intensely interesting reading
and wonderful art, don't you think.
I remember looking at similar images when young and I would be transported out there. [This message has been edited by andrex (edited May 13, 2005).] |
Glint
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posted 05-13-2005 01:48 PM
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and wonderful art, don't you think.
Yes, while I was hand picking selections to take for my collection the man who was giving them away pointed out some other selections which he felt "had more meat" in them. Yet, while these other books being offered had better technical content, supported with the calculus and complex matrix manipulations, I am less likely to read a 50-year-old book filled with tables of outdated raw data and logarithms from cover to cover than I am to look at the pretty pictures. So, my eyes were given the pleasure of choosing. |
dreamspace
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posted 05-13-2005 01:59 PM
I am the author of Dreams of Space , the web site you have found. sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/john.htm I love a chance to talk about this stuff so speak up! I have been collecting non-fiction children's books about spaceflight for about 14 years now. There were over 400 published between 1950 and 1975 and my site is just the tip of the iceberg. I have a huge collection outside of what you see and am happy to help identify those childhood books that you just "sort of" remember. It seems to me it is the illustrations that are what really sparks memories but it is a lot harder to publish a picture book. So this website ends up being my "picture book" without any of the scholarly comment or context of these books. Eventually I would like to publish a book about these wonderful publications. John Sisson |
John K. Rochester
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From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 05-13-2005 03:20 PM
Does anyone remember, or have..copies of a set of books written during the early days of Gemini? Kind of like a "Hardy Boys" series.. same type of book, size and cover colors. Astronaut characters flew Gemini, Apollo missions |
Glint
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From: New Windsor, Maryland USA
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posted 05-13-2005 03:40 PM
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Originally posted by dreamspace:
I am the author of Dreams of Space , the web site you have found. sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/john.htm
Beautiful web site. I really enjoyed looking at it. It brought back memories of many years ago, and others as recently as last weekend! quote:
Originally posted by John K. Rochester:
Does anyone remember, or have..copies of a set of books written during the early days of Gemini? Kind of like a "Hardy Boys" series.. same type of book, size and cover colors. Astronaut characters flew Gemini, Apollo missions
Besides the Dr. Seuss subscription when I was a child, mentioned above, my parents also signed me up for a "Happy Holisters" book club. The Hollisters was a Hardy Boys knock-off mystery series. The books piled up as I had little interest in reading mysteries. But then one came that had an interesting title, "The Mystery at Missle Town." I read it, enjoyed it and decided to give the others a chance.  None of them seemed as good, but I kept reading in the vain hope that there might be at least one other with an equally interesting theme. Eventually I read them all, but don't recall the space theme occurring in any other volumes.
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andrex
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 05-13-2005 09:01 PM
Whilst were on the topic, does anyone remember an artist who did a lot of space art in the 70's (i think) called 'Morbious' or 'Mobious' or something like that.
I remember an illustration of immense rocket ships being loaded up with creatures going in 'two by two'.
His pictures were always on a massive scale.
I've lost the book and can't find anything on google with any variation on spelling. Cheers Andrew |
dreamspace
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posted 09-20-2005 06:03 PM
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Originally posted by John K. Rochester:
Does anyone remember, or have..copies of a set of books written during the early days of Gemini? Kind of like a "Hardy Boys" series.. same type of book, size and cover colors. Astronaut characters flew Gemini, Apollo missions
Now that I have thought about it. I think the series of books was called "Mike Mars". They started around 1961 and ran until 1965? The titles I know are:
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Mike Mars and the Mystery Satellite Wollheim, Donald A
Mike Mars around the Moon
Wollheim, Donald A
Mike Mars Astronaut (paper)
Wollheim, Donald A
Mike Mars flies the Dyna-Soar
Wollheim, Donald A
Mike Mars Flies the X-15
Wollheim, Donald A
Mike Mars in Orbit
Wollheim, Donald A John Sisson
Dreams of Space
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