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Collect children's books about spaceflight. Check it out at Dreams of Space . I have 100s of non-fiction books from the 1950s and 1960s about our future in space.

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Children's Space Flight Book Collector - John Sisson

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Posted by on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:02:00 GMT

Space books from other countries

http://dreamsofspace.nfshost.com/othercountries.htm Like this:
Posted by on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:28:00 GMT

Space art site is moving

I need to move my Children's Space Art site so Dreams of Space is moving to: http://www.dreamsofspace.com Cool URL ain't it. Come check out what 40,000 people in the past year have found moderately am...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:18:00 GMT

Heading for the moon

The space stuff just keeps on coming. So here are a few more goodies to share:   Happy Jets to my 0 readers!
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:23:00 GMT

Some more space art pictures

        All images from books in my collection
Posted by on Wed, 24 May 2006 17:18:00 GMT

Cool Space pictures

I love space art (see here http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/spaceart.htm ). So here are some of my favorite images for the children's books I have collected:   If you like these I'll add ...
Posted by on Fri, 19 May 2006 16:18:00 GMT

Astrofuturism

ASTROFUTURISM   "Pervasive images in the popular culture, as well as a good part of the science literacy of the lay public, all have roots in the minds and on the drawing boards of astrofuturists...
Posted by on Wed, 17 May 2006 11:22:00 GMT

New Space books

I love it when I get new books in. There is something about a mixture of how silly they look from 40 years down the road mixed with the optimism of the times.  Here is a great cover "Sam the Spac...
Posted by on Tue, 09 May 2006 10:28:00 GMT

Space books

From my book in progress: "There is a commonly accepted history of the major events and people that pushed space flight into the popular culture in the 1950s and helped create continuing support in th...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:15:00 GMT