The Complete Book of Space Travel (1956). Rear Panel with Prediction
The prediction on the rear panel is close. Yuri Gagarin had already been born and was 22 years old when the book was published. He was the first person to journey into outer space, aboard the Vostok spacecraft, and was born in 1934. He completed an orbit of the earth on April 12, 1961.
This book from The World Publishing Co. is just one of several popular books that, together with magazine articles, TV shows and movies, explored the possibility of space travel and sparked children's imaginations during the 1950's. So, in May 1961, when John Kennedy proposed a trip to the moon and back by the end of the decade, no generation was more eager and better prepared for the journey than the children of the 50's. Many of them would go on to become space pioneers and make their childhood dreams come true. May the dreams never die.
The Complete Book of Space Travel (1956). Rear Panel with Prediction
The prediction on the rear panel is close. Yuri Gagarin had already been born and was 22 years old when the book was published. He was the first person to journey into outer space, aboard the Vostok spacecraft, and was born in 1934. He completed an orbit of the earth on April 12, 1961.
This book from The World Publishing Co. is just one of several popular books that, together with magazine articles, TV shows and movies, explored the possibility of space travel and sparked children's imaginations during the 1950's. So, in May 1961, when John Kennedy proposed a trip to the moon and back by the end of the decade, no generation was more eager and better prepared for the journey than the children of the 50's. Many of them would go on to become space pioneers and make their childhood dreams come true. May the dreams never die.