The Man from Space (1955)

Nothing to do with space flight just an old cool cover. Get ready for your "First Vacation on the Moon".

Aksaray Ağzıkarahan Kervansarayı

Ağzıkara Han, korunaklı duvarları, kuleleri ile bir kale görünümünde. İpek Yolu üzerinde seyahat eden kervanların güvenliklerini ve konaklamalarını sağlamak amacıyla yapılmış. Aynı zamanda Moğol saldırılarına karşı kale amaçlı olarak kullanılmış.

Aksaray-Nevşehir karayolunun 15 km.sinde bulunan Ağzıkara Han Osmanlı kaynaklarında Hoca Mesud Hanı olarak geçmektedir. Kitabesinden öğrenildiğine göre Hoca Mesut Bin Abdullah tarafından yaptırılmış, hol kısmı 1231’de Selçuklu Sultanı I. Alaaddin Keykubat zamanında, avlusu II. Gıyasettin Keyhüsrev’in hükümdarlığının ilk yıllarında, 1237’de tamamlanmıştır.

Horasan Erlerinin, Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi'lerin, Yunus Emre'lerin, Hacı Bektaş Veli'lerin, Hacı Bayram Veli'lerin yaşadığı çağda, korunaklı konforlu odaları ve ahırlarıyla, İpek Yolu üzerinde yolculuk eden kervanların konaklayabildikleri, günümüzün otoparkları ve lüks süitleriyle beş yıldızlı otelleri konumundadır.

Hoca Mesud, bu devirde bilhassa mesnevî edebiyatının değerli simâları arasında yer almıştır.



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What's on the Moon? (1965)

Reader's Digest may not be the first place you go to find children's books about space flight but I found one.  In the 1960s there was a hunger for materials for the classroom. Reader's Digest evidently had a series of reprinted articles that they made available for classroom use.  Although the cover is alluring, most of the articles inside were not about space. The cover on this is very Bonestellian. The space article reprinted is a 1963 article:

Maisel, Albert Q. "The Fantastic Hazards of Landing on the Moon" Reader's Digest Sept 1963.

 On the inside is also a nice painting of men exploring the Moon.

Between "mountain climbing" and the huge cracks in the surface it looks like their Moon was a lot more exciting than "our" Moon.  The adventure of going to the Moon. Of course because this was intended for schools there had to be a quiz on the material at the end of the "interesting" reading.  Test your space knowledge (and knowledge of word endings)!

P.S. Are you getting ready for your “First Vacation on the Moon?

EN GÜZEL DAVET SOFRALARI YARIŞMASINDA ALDIĞIM BİRİNCİLİK ÖDÜLLERİM BU GÜN GELDİ

HAMARAT ABLA COM

DÜZENLEDİĞİ EN GÜZEL DAVET SOFRALARI YARIŞMASINDA AŞAĞIDAKİ MASAMLA BİRİNCİLİK KAZANDIM ÖDÜLERİM BU GÜN ELİME ULAŞTI EYÜP KEMAL  SEVİNÇ USTANIN ADIMA İMZALADIĞI YEMEK KİTABIM VE FOTOGRAF MAKİNEM  TEŞEKKÜRLER HAMARAT ABLA VE EYÜP USTA

Ankara'da Hun İzleri

Ankara'da Hun İzleri - Damgaların Göçü: Ankara'nın Güdül ilçesine bağlı Salihlerobası köyünde, gözlerden uzak bir vadinin duvarları çarpıcı figürler, kaya resimleri, damgalar ve hatta Göktürklerin runik alfabesiyle yazıldığı düşünülen yazıtlar barındırıyor. (Atlas Dergisi, Nisan 2009)

Moğolistan'da Gobi Çölü'nden başlayıp Anadolu'ya uzanan taştaki izlerin en ilginç örneklerinden bazıları da Salihlerobası köyü yakınlarında. Buradaki kaya resmi alanında, Orta Asya'dakilerle çarpıcı benzerlikler taşıyan figür ve damgalar bulunuyor.

Damgaların Göçü: Türkler Anadolu'ya ne zaman geldi?

Yapımcı ve yönetmen Servet Somuncuoğlu,“Damgaların Göçü” belgeseli ile yine taşlardaki Türk izlerini TRT Belgesel kanalında ekrana taşıdı...

İzleyin: Bölüm 1, Bölüm 2, Bölüm 3.

Wonders of Space Stamps (1954)

These "Golden Books" were everywhere and there were stamps for all sorts of subjects. This is the earliest of the space related stamps books.  Each stamp is a little jewel of space art.

Bernhard, Hubert. Illustrated by Solonewitsch, George and Discount, William. Wonders of Space Stamps: An Exciting Account of the Stars, Sun, Planets, and Other Wonders of the Sky. New York: Simon and Schuster. (48 p.) 28 cm. (1954)

There are so many images that rather than scan each I scanned the sheets of stamps.

These stamp books had simple text and 48 color stamps to glue in the appropriate places. George Solonewitsch's stamp art includes paintings of the planets and a rocket to the Moon.

But you should not discount a little extra space art from William Discount (sorry). His drawings of a couple of space scenes to go with the stamps are also a hidden treasure.

This is the only page that has any space flight text but these next few images are nicely futuristic about what children could expect from space flight.

Beside the Moon mankind would also eventually go to tthe other planets.
 

A very nice book. P.S. your "First Vacation on the Moon" is coming up soon!

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To the Moon by Rocket Ship (1940)

I have very few pre-1950s items in my collection.  Since my focus is primarily children's non-fiction about space flight there are now many earlier examples. One might be this 1940 pamphlet from the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia. At the time a few planetariums were having special shows that took visitors on an imaginary voyage into space.

This pamphlet collected the facts and gave the visitor something to take home.  While primitive in appearance I image many children who were in love with Buck Rogers being facinated that it might someday all be true.

The text give you the feeling that the presentation was sort of like an early version of the modern science fiction epic where you are immersed in an science fiction adventure to the Moon.

Do You Know About Our Solar System? (1963)

A quick one on a Friday.  While most of this book has pictures of the planets it does have one excellent illustration worth sharing.

King, H C. Illustrated by Hall, Roger. Do You Know about Our Solar System. London : Collins Sons and Co. (48 p.) 27 cm. Cloth. (1963)

Mostly concerned with astronomy, there are illustrations of space probes, the surfaces of several planets and a manned landing on the Moon. "Pageant of Knowledge" series.

The Illustrated Story of Space (Classics Illustrated) (1959)

This is the cover you would have found on the American edition of this comic book and this is the British cover:

I like how they chose to "flip" the image.

Classics Illustrated were comics books intended to educate as well as entertain.  They often were fictional "classic" books in comic book form such as Moby Dick. They also had a special series called "The World around Us." These were non-fiction comic books about topics of interest.

Classics Illustrated. Illustrated by McCann, Gerald, Glanzman, Sam, and Tartaglione, John. The Illustrated Story of Space. Classics Illustrated. (80 p.) 26 cm. Softcover.


Contains illustrated stories on training for space, the first rocket to the Moon, the history and use of the rocket, the launch of Vanguard 1, and the construction of a space station. "The World Around Us" (#5) January 1959.

"These are no longer the dreams of science fiction. They are part of real life."
 

The excitement of assembling a space station
 

Just page after page of excitement about what was just around the corner...
 

The ship they chose for the landing on the Moon seems a little odd.  Why carry a winged plane all the way to the Moon when you will leave and return to a space station?
 
 

I also love the angle they chose for this illustration. You really feel like you are climbing down to the surface.
 

"When you're ready to go to the planets, sir, I'll be standing by!"

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Space Patrol Official Handbook (1952)

This is a re-run for you fans of my old Dreams of Space site but I wanted to tell the story again.

This is a booklet that I was amazed to find and even more amazing was that the only mention of it was buried in the introduction of a totally different book I had read 8 months before I ever saw this book. And it has nothing to do with the old Space Patrol TV series.

From the Introduction to Space Aces! Comic Book Heroes from the Forties and Fifties by Denis Gifford 1992.

"My own entry into the sci-fi world really happened in 1952. I was drawing 'Flip and Flop' and other comic characters for Mick Anglo's comic-books when I conceived my great idea. Within a month I had compiled and launched Space Patrol Official Handbook, from the Space Patrol Headquarters, 16 Sydenham Park, SE26! 'Your Passport to the Planets', as I advertised it, contained 'Everything you want to know about the Life on Other Planets, Space Suits, Spacecraft Recognition, Insignia, Interplanetary Languages - plus Space Patrol Membership Certificate! Secret Codes of the Spaceways! Interplanetary Passport! Gazetteer of the Galaxy! Real Photographs of Spaceships! (pinched from space films, of course) and the Space Man's Code of Honour!' Also a 'Free Jet-ex Jet-propelled Rocket Ship in Easy Competition! - It Flies!' All this and more in one twenty-page blue-covered booklet for a one-and-sixpenny Postal order! A word of warning - don't send a 1s 6d PO to SPHQ, will you? I sold out and moved! Anyway, as there are only two known copies left, the Handbook would now cost a little more than seven and a half pence!"


There was even a copy of the old advertisement he had reproduced in the book:

Well with only 2 copies around I never thought I would see this book in my space book hunting.

The booklet is a marvel of homemade early science fiction fandom. It mixes movies, old science fiction ideas, and a dash of space science.

Since it is so "rare" I am happy to share with you this essential guide to spaceflight.

As you can see he was shameless in borrowing from the science fiction films of the time.

The question is this raises is simple. Is this a unique item?  It is certainly obscure but I have had some else write me to say that they had one too.  So is this simply amateur science fiction or is it the ultimate expression of that child within us that wants to tell everyone about how cool spaceflight is?

I think the guy was hoping to make a little money off of cashing in on the latest fad. This book represents to me why I started collecting these things. They are obscure and forgotten but someone needs to save them and make sure future generations can appreciate how wonderful the early space age was.  For I do believe we are part of the early space age and there is a lot more to come.