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
Tag: space
Live like the Jetsons!
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.
Sally Ride
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
The Final Frontier
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
Ground Control to Major Tom
Handbook for Space Colonists Stine 1985Submitter: This terribly outdated book is currently available at our local library. The book opens with the assumption that soon we will have a choice to live/work in space. What follows is a VERY thorough
From Gasbags to Spaceships
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
Space: Battleground of the Future
Space: Battleground of the Future? Taylor 1983, revised 1988 Submitter: In honor of the final days of the shuttle program, we’d like to share with you, “Space: Battleground of the Future?” by L. B. Taylor Jr., 1983, revised 1988. [Weeded in
Weeding is not rocket science
Rocket Power and Space Flight Stine 1957 The flyleaf of this book starts out by saying that the book was the result of thousands of letters that the author received. He says, “Some of these letters have been from young