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Rocket to the Moon - cover

Fly Me To the Moon

September 2, 2015 Holly Bleeding Edge 8 comments

Rocket to the Moon Bonestell 1961 Submitter: This system had a children’s museum annex (hence the stamp on the record sleeve), there was no sign of a checkout card sleeve in the book.  My guess is that it spent nearly all

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Future Travel cover

Live like the Jetsons!

November 5, 2013 Holly Bleeding Edge, Can I get there from here? 12 comments

Future Travel
Abels
1980

Submitter: This book is nonfiction.  Yes, really.  It was in our 629s, and now it is at my desk so I can show it to all the teachers who wonder where all the “lovely books” have gone. The lovely ones are still on the shelves.  Books like these, however, …

This book circulated a total of four times in the mid-1980s.

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Sally Ride cover

Sally Ride

July 20, 2013 Holly Biography, Bleeding Edge 6 comments

Sally Ride and the New Astronauts: Scientists in Space O’Connor 1983 Submitter: Here is a gem from a very busy branch of a large California public library system. Someone on staff re-shelved this one recently. At the time, this was a great

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You and Space Travel title page

The Final Frontier

June 25, 2013 Mary Kelly Bleeding Edge, For the Kids 10 comments

You and Space Travel Lewellen 1951 Believe it or not, I found this among an active public library youth collection.  Seriously,  1951 on space travel.  Here I was griping about stuff on space from the early sixties or this one from

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Gasbags to Spaceships cover

From Gasbags to Spaceships

March 27, 2013 Holly Bleeding Edge 3 comments

From Gasbags to Spaceships: The Story of the U.S. Air Force MacCloskey 1968 Submitter: Aside from the giggle inducing title, this is a pretty good historical look at the Air Force.  The problem is, it ends in 1968 and we

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