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Posted by: Betelgeuze Nov 9 2006, 11:58 PM

Recently I found an old children book about the moon, the interesting part is that this book was printed in 1963. Its all in Dutch but Im sure theres an English version of it, its called 'The How and Why Wonder book of The Moon' by Felix Sutton.

Ofcourse this book has a lot of images and its fun and interesting to see how they saw the 'future' of space exploration. It has nice pictures of the moon landscape, concept art of a couple of moon rovers, Ranger, moon landers, moon base(domes included) and something that looks like a spaceshuttle.

I think some of you might be interested in this some I made some scans of a couple of images from the book:

http://alphaorionis.be/images/demaan/1.jpg
http://alphaorionis.be/images/demaan/2.jpg
http://alphaorionis.be/images/demaan/3.jpg
http://alphaorionis.be/images/demaan/4.jpg
http://alphaorionis.be/images/demaan/5.jpg
http://alphaorionis.be/images/demaan/6.jpg
http://alphaorionis.be/images/demaan/7.jpg
http://alphaorionis.be/images/demaan/8.jpg
http://alphaorionis.be/images/demaan/9.jpg
http://alphaorionis.be/images/demaan/10.jpg
http://alphaorionis.be/images/demaan/11.jpg
http://alphaorionis.be/images/demaan/12.jpg

Posted by: MizarKey Nov 10 2006, 12:56 AM

You gotta love image 3 of the solar system...that's the solar system I grew up with...12 moons for Jupiter and 9 for Saturn and all was right with the universe...

Posted by: lyford Nov 10 2006, 01:23 AM

Very nice!

The cool scientific illustrations of yesterday make the cool band flyers of tomorrow.

Posted by: nprev Nov 10 2006, 01:36 AM

Damn...I had that book as a kid...wish I had it now. Still, nice flashback, Alpha O!

Posted by: angel1801 Nov 10 2006, 02:26 AM

I read that book too. It was in my primary school [1] library and I borrowed it at least once.

[1] Primary school = 1st grade to 7th grade, High school = 8th grade to 12th grade

Posted by: Betelgeuze Nov 10 2006, 11:01 AM