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'De Maan' book from 1963 |
 Nov 9 2006, 11:58 PM
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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 |
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Nov 10 2006, 12:56 AM
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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...
-------------------- Eric P / MizarKey
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Nov 10 2006, 01:23 AM
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Very nice!
The cool scientific illustrations of yesterday make the cool band flyers of tomorrow. 
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Nov 10 2006, 01:36 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8791 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Damn...I had that book as a kid...wish I had it now.
 Still, nice flashback, Alpha O!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Nov 10 2006, 02:26 AM
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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 -------------------- I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed.
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Nov 10 2006, 11:01 AM
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QUOTE 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... Yeah and look at the size of Pluto 
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