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"Crewman wheels fuel tank from cave, as moon-to-earth missile is readied for firing."
The use of the station on the moon as a military base for defense purposes, thankfully, didn't happen. Here is what the authors had proposed:
"The station on the moon would be pretty safe against any kind of attack from earth. . . and guided missiles fired from the moon against a target on earth would be almost impossible to stop. So the first trip to the moon will be made to explore for a place where a military base can be set up." [From the text]
Wouldn't expect anything less from the paranoid fifties.
Cynthia was 50 days to her 3rd bDay in case you are wondering.
And she was thrilled by so many books
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~ Joseph Addison ~
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
~ Joseph Brodsky ~
I am not alone. Books are my friends.
Paper books are not only good for eyes. They are good for souls too,
Richmond. January 2018.
Fuji X-T1
Fuji XF 56mm F1.2
In-camera B&W with yellow filter
Photographer's Note:
I am practising with the 56mm F1.2. This lens is super sharp and able to render great tonal range. Considering its quality and performance, I do not think it is big and heavy. I believe it is great for portrait or scenes that you need less details in the context or background.
Both sides of this board were filled up with children writing down what it was they were reading, and I only took this photo shortly after I had arrived. The board was really crammed with writing by the time I left the place.
My daughters newest book was published in April. I am doing some shameless promotion.
NIGHTINGALE by Deva Fagan ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 20, 2021
A jaded orphan becomes a reluctant hero in order to save herself and those she cares about.
Twelve-year-old Lark Granby lives in a boardinghouse run by the cold and guileful Miss Starvenger, to whom she owes a debt. She dreams of one seemingly impossible thing—being free. Lark’s desperation to escape her life of poverty leads her to the Royal Museum, ready to carry out a heist. She ends up with way more than she bargained for when a magical sword, awakened by the young Prince Jasper, chooses her as its owner, thus making her the next Nightingale, the first having been a hero who died while saving their kingdom of Gallant centuries ago. Not only is Lark set against being a hero, especially a martyr, she has resisted getting attached to others. But our young, cynical heroine soon discovers the benefits of forming personal bonds, growing to understand that relationships can help prevent catastrophe, prolong survival, and simply foster joy. Fagan’s novel is well paced and will hold readers’ attention from the get-go. Lark has gumption and, despite her initial reluctance to assume the role and responsibilities thrust upon her, proves the perfect vessel for sympathetic character growth. Significant inclusion of science fiction and political activism elements complement the action in the book and will serve to appeal to a wide audience. The novel features characters of varying skin tones.
An entertaining, organic, action-packed combination of adventure, science fiction, and fantasy. (Adventure. 8-12) [Kirkus Review]
“Bright earth-light floods moon landscape. Earth would appear four times as large as moon does to us.”
“On waking he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes – it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft and breasting the pure mountain-breeze. “Surely,” thought Rip, “I have not slept here all night.” He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep. The strange man with a keg of liquor – the mountain ravine – the wild retreat among the rocks – the woebegone party at nine-pins – the flagon. “Oh, that flagon! That wicked flagon!” thought Rip – “what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle!”
TO THE READER
This book, SPACE PILOTS, is the second of a series on Adventure in Space. This series is the story of the rocket age in which Man will pierce the atmosphere and conquer the open space beyond it. This age is going to come much sooner than most people realize, and some of you who read this will take an active part in it. Here you will learn about the people who will fly the rocket ships.
Some of you may be among those who will be trained for this task. – Willy Ley
“The moon rocket has landed safely on her hydraulic ‘spider legs’ and the work of surveying and exploring has begun. Scientist in foreground is using an ore detector.”
American artist N. C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945) was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. The first of these, "Treasure Island," was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Beside his many illustration plaudits, NC Wyeth is famous for being the father of artist Andrew Wyeth and the grandfather of artist Jamie Wyeth.
[Source: Wikipedia]
A young reader daydreams of pirates and Spanish galleons, the Star Wars of its day.
Wyeth had an active working relationship with “The Ladies Home Journal” during the 1920s providing cover and story illustrations
“Mars as seen from PHOBOS, visual angle 60°. Scientists are setting up instruments on the innermost of the two satellites. PHOBOS, ten miles in diameter, and distant 5800 miles from its planet, circles it in less than half a day. The ship, based on a station in space, would be well adapted for landing on places with little or no atmosphere.”
“Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships” was one of the most popular space books of the 1950s. It has black-and-white and color illustrations throughout illustrating chapters on the earliest rockets, the development of sophisticated rockets and jet aircraft, their uses in warfare, and American experiments since WWII and concluding with a look at the future of space travel.
American artist N. C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945) was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. The first of these, "Treasure Island," was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Beside his many illustration plaudits, NC Wyeth is famous for being the father of artist Andrew Wyeth and the grandfather of artist Jamie Wyeth.
[Source: Wikipedia]
“It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay – the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed. “My very dog,” sighed poor Rip, “has forgotten me!”
“The whole group reminded Rip of the figures in an old Flemish painting in the parlor of Dominie Van Shaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over from Holland at the time of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder.”
TO THE READER
“SPACE STATIONS is the third in a series on Adventure in Space. The series is the story of the rocket age, of how Man will escape from the air ocean surrounding the earth and conquer the open space beyond it. This age is going to come much sooner than most people realize, and the establishment of the manned space station discussed in this book will be the largest single step in the conquest of space.
“We hope that this series will be the key that opens the door to the rocket age for you.” – Willy Ley
TO THE READER
This book, MAN-MADE SATELLITES, is the first of a series on Adventure in Space. This series is the story of the rocket age in which Man will pierce the atmosphere and conquer the open space beyond it. This age is going to come much sooner than most people realize.
We hope that this series will be the key that opens the door to the rocket age for you. – Willy Ley
Mining operations, of course.
"Battery-powered, tractor-mounted drill at work. Gravity one-sixth that of earth makes handling of heavy equipment easy."
[Caption]
"There is nobody on earth rich enough to pay for a rocket that would go to the moon. The big business corporations might possibly find the money, but they would want to see some way of getting it back. At present, it is believed that many valuable minerals are to be found on the moon, but nobody knows for sure. It is not very likely that the big corporations will risk their money. So it appears that the moon rocket will have to be a government project." [From the text]
From the Introduction (by Willey Ley):
“. . . Now the engineers are talking about space travel. They are confident that they can do the things that need to be done to bring it about. They don’t say that they can do it today or tomorrow; nor do they say that it will be easy. But they do say that, if given some time (say between twelve and twenty years) and the necessary money (a few billion dollars, or about as much as was given to the Atomic Energy program) they can build a station in space and a moon ship, too . . . So, it was the moon that started the whole idea of space travel. And, worthwhile or not, it will be the first heavenly body to be reached by Man.”
“The story of man’s greatest adventures in outer space including the Glenn, Carpenter and Schirra flights.”
ALIVE IN SPACE
"Men can live in space.
"The world knew for sure that it was possible when, on April 12, 1961, a 27-year-old Russian named Yuri Gagarin riding in a Sputnik that weighed 10,395 pounds -- a little more than the weight of six Volkswagens -- sped around the earth in 108 minutes. That is about as long as it takes to see the average motion picture and it means that Gagarin's speed was 17,000 miles an hour, 11 times the speed of an American-made jet fighter plane. At one point, Gagarin was 203 miles high -- a little less than the distance between New York City and Boston.
"Yuri Gagarin came back alive and, because he is the first man to have gone around the world above the earth's atmosphere, he is now one of the most famous men in history -- and he always will be. . ." [Opening paragraphs in the book]
(Sadly, Yuri Gagarin was killed in a jet crash on March 27, 1968.)
TO THE READER
Space Travel is the fourth and last in a series on Adventure in Space. This series is the story of the rocket age, of how Man will escape from the air ocean surrounding the earth and conquer the open space beyond it. This age has already begun, its beginning was signalled by the putting of the first artificial satellite into an orbit around the earth.
The preceding three books in this series were entitled: Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, and Space Stations.
We hope that this series will be the key that opens the door to the rocket age for you.
– Willy Ley
“Rip now resumed his old walks and habits; he soon found many of his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time; and preferred making friends among the rising generation, with whom he soon grew into great favor.”
“A Marsmobile of the future.”
Sixty-three years later and man's dream of tooling around Mars in a rover is still in the future. Who would have thought? Who is better equipped and qualified to explore the red planet, man or robot?
“Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade through a long lazy summer’s day, talking listlessly over village gossip or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing.”
“On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger’s appearance. He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair and a grizzled beard. His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion – a cloth jerkin strapped round the waist – several pairs of breeches, the outer one of ample volume, decorated with rows of buttons down the sides, and bunches at the knees. He bore on his shoulder a stout keg that seemed full of liquor, and made signs for Rip to approach and assist him with the load.”
Moonwalkers calling home? Not really.
"Sun's rays are focused by large reflector on mercury boiler. Vapor will drive engines to furnish electric power."
“Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships” was one of the most popular space books of the 1950s. It has black-and-white and color illustrations throughout illustrating chapters on the earliest rockets, the development of sophisticated rockets and jet aircraft, their uses in warfare, and American experiments since WWII and concluding with a look at the future of space travel.
From the back cover:
THE GOLDEN LIBRARY OF KNOWLEDGE
Factual Books for Young Readers.
Photographs and paintings in full color illustrate these scholarly, easy-to-read texts, prepared under the supervision of Dr. Herbert S. Zim, editor of the “Golden Nature Guides,” and authority on science education.
Girl, sitting in the garden reading, puts her book down and stares at the painter.
The Great Chalice of Antioch mentioned on the magazine cover was found in Syria in 1910 with several other items, including a large cross and three book covers. It was believed to have belonged to a church in Antioch, one of the five cities that led the early Christian church along with Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Alexandria. When it was discovered, the inner cup was thought to be the Holy Chalice, with the gilded, footed shell being added within the first century after the death of Christ to honor the grail. It was displayed as the Holy Grail at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933 and was later sold to The Cloisters in New York in 1950. [Source: Wikipedia]
The story of Rip Van Winkle, who took a walk in the woods, fell asleep and awakens twenty years later, is set in New York's Catskill Mountains.
“A horizontal version of lunar modular living and working quarters for use in the ‘Man on the Moon’ program. Conceived by scientists and engineers of the Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Sunnyvale, California, each module is eighteen feet in diameter. Each is fully equipped and self-sufficient except for electrical power which is supplied from a remote nuclear power source. Solar flare protection chambers are provided at the base of the modules.” [From the accompanying description]
In the blockhouse at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, the countdown proceeds for the firing of the first rocket of Project Vanguard carrying an artificial satellite. By the end of the International Geophysical Year in 1958, “the United States expects to fire at least half a dozen satellite-carrying rockets of the Vanguard type.” [Summarizing and Quoting from the text]
On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. On January 31, 1958, a US Army Jupiter-C rocket launched Explorer I, the first American satellite into Earth orbit.
One of the five bodies circling the earth is the third stage of a rocket ship manned by three men. The other four bodies are the “cargo pods” of other rocket ships. And one more pod is on the way.
The principle of operation is this. . . “If a large amount of material has to be carried into an orbit it is not necessary to carry every pound of it in manned ships. The cheapest way is to put the material into the cargo pods of unmanned ships. However, remote control from the ground could not get a number of cargo pods together in the same place. Therefore, a manned ship must be in the orbit all the time to direct the unmanned cargo pods by remote control.” [Summarizing and Quoting from the text]
Two floors in the rim, each nine feet high, are the inhabited areas in the space station. Above and below the inhabited areas are three-foot high compartments for storage, water tanks, air conditioning ducts, electrical cables and similar equipment.
What separates the outside from the inside of the space station “is the meteor bumper – a thin sheet of metal which stops the grains of cosmic dust that fly through space – and a skin of reinforced plastic which keeps air in. Either nylon or wire mesh is imbedded in the plastic, making it strong and light. This plastic is stretched over metal ribs which give the rim its shape and provide additional strength.” [Summarizing and Quoting from the text]
“A push is sufficient to launch the moon rocket. Once clear of the station, rocket motors will blast the ship on its long voyage.”
“Braking down on the Moon, coming in tail first, after its flip-over in space, pilot eases rocket down gently on Moon’s scarred surface.”
“Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships” was one of the most popular space books of the 1950s. It has black-and-white and color illustrations throughout illustrating chapters on the earliest rockets, the development of sophisticated rockets and jet aircraft, their uses in warfare, and American experiments since WWII and concluding with a look at the future of space travel.
A three-stage rocket ship – call it Geryon or the X-49 – will eventually be assembled. The large first stage will be put on top of a blast deflector – a yawning hole into which the rocket motors can discharge their exhaust blast. Then the second stage will be put on top of the first, and finally a delta-winged third stage will be placed on top of the second stage.
But first a two-stage ship will be tested, as shown in the illustration. Each stage has wings along with its own pilot and co-pilot. The pilot of the first stage, after the upper delta-winged stage has blasted away from it, will gradually put the rocket into level flight and keep it aloft until air resistance has killed off its high speed. He might even succeed in flying in an enormous circle so that his ship becomes subsonic again for landing.
“The piloted upper stage, in the meantime, has left the atmosphere along a tremendous arc, reaching a peak of 300 or 400 miles above sea level, and more than 2,500 miles from home base. Some 5,000 miles from home base the upper stage re-enters the atmosphere and lands at a base prepared in a suitable location. After this preparation the crew is ready for the three-stage ship, where the upper stage of the two-stage ship is the third stage.”
[Summarizing and Quoting from the text]
One of the great book series of the turn of the century was “Scribner’s Illustrated Classics for Young Readers.” This series presented great classics illustrated in full color by known artists such as N. C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle and others. “Treasure Island,” published in 1911 and illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, was the first book in the series. The series continued on a nearly one-a-year basis through the 1930s. Wyeth illustrated the largest number of books – 16 – more than any other artist.
Book titles in the series ranged the gamut from adventure stories, to historical fiction, to westerns, and even poems. The books were very popular from the start and were reprinted regularly. Beginning in 1981 Scribner’s began to reprint those illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, releasing one each year for 15 years.
“If lack of gravity proves to have serious physical effects on crew, space station may be built like this. Observatories will be in central hub, living and working quarters in revolving rim.”
For an orbiting satellite to be used in navigation, tables must be prepared after firing with the help of special tracking telescopes. Tabulating the orbit of the navigational satellite, “a few-score observations, made from various points on the ground over a period of two or three weeks, should be enough. It is quite possible that the navigational satellite could also be used as a radar target by which long-distance self-navigating missiles would steer their course. When such a device has been built for missiles, it might also be used by airliners.” [Summarizing and Quoting from the text]
“Minerva – the first interplanetary ship – as she leaves the space station on her trip to the minor planet Eros.
“Eros is one of the hundreds of minor planets, also called planetoids or asteroids, in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Eros was discovered in 1898 and, when its orbit was calculated, it was discovered that it did not stay in the space between Mars and Jupiter. It crossed the orbit of Mars and came much closer to earth than Mars, which at its minimum distance is still 35 million miles away.” [From the text]
The final destination is Mars and two winged rocket ships may be seen attached to the side of the Minerva. Those ships will actually attempt a landing on Mars. Minerva will remain behind on the Martian moon Phobos.
“Venus is forever veiled in many and deep cloud layers. Only one or two astronomers ever claimed to have caught a glimpse of part of the surface of Venus. They thought they saw enormous mountains, but they may have been mistaken. We are not even certain that its clouds are really water vapor. One successful Venusian probe would clear up many questions.” [Quoting from the text]
American artist N. C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945) was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. The first of these, "Treasure Island," was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Beside his many illustration plaudits, NC Wyeth is famous for being the father of artist Andrew Wyeth and the grandfather of artist Jamie Wyeth.
[Source: Wikipedia]
“A man-carrying rocket ship waits for the takeoff . . .”
THE GOLDEN LIBRARY OF KNOWLEDGE
Factual Books for Young Readers.
Photographs and paintings in full color illustrate these scholarly, easy-to-read texts, prepared under the supervision of Dr. Herbert S. Zim, editor of the “Golden Nature Guides,” and authority on science education.
“Spacemen float in orbit above the Earth in self-propelled, airtight space suits.”
THE GOLDEN LIBRARY OF KNOWLEDGE
Factual Books for Young Readers.
Photographs and paintings in full color illustrate these scholarly, easy-to-read texts, prepared under the supervision of Dr. Herbert S. Zim, editor of the “Golden Nature Guides,” and authority on science education.
“Rockets launched from ships’ boats in attack on Fort McHenry, Baltimore, 1814. Ladder slung from mast served as launching rack. Elevation was changed by raising or lowering ladder. A flint gunlock with a long lanyard touched off rocket fuse. Gunners wore leather jackets and hats as protection from blast.”
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
Congreve rockets, designed by the British in 1804, were used in the attack on Fort McHenry.