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Many scientists and engineers who worked on the Apollo project in the 1960s reported being inspired by science fiction stories that they read as teenagers. This wonderful cover for a 1928 paperback (found a year or so ago on Ebay - don't know who the buyer or seller were!) is the kind of space art (and text) that enchanted me some decades later. The cover offers the enticement of a person (in a Spiderman-tight space suit) amidst the craters and crags of the Moon. The back cover is a simple, but relatively accurate, map of the Moon with actual lunar names correctly placed. Are young people stimulated by today's science fiction - or have our science accomplishments eliminated such imaginative dreaming?<br /> | Many scientists and engineers who worked on the Apollo project in the 1960s reported being inspired by science fiction stories that they read as teenagers. This wonderful cover for a 1928 paperback (found a year or so ago on Ebay - don't know who the buyer or seller were!) is the kind of space art (and text) that enchanted me some decades later. The cover offers the enticement of a person (in a Spiderman-tight space suit) amidst the craters and crags of the Moon. The back cover is a simple, but relatively accurate, map of the Moon with actual lunar names correctly placed. Are young people stimulated by today's science fiction - or have our science accomplishments eliminated such imaginative dreaming?<br /> | ||
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| − | <em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com | + | <em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /> |
| − | <em>This LPOD originally appeared [ | + | <em>This LPOD originally appeared [[January_21,_2004|Jan 21, 2005]]</em><br /> |
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<strong>Related Links</strong><br /> | <strong>Related Links</strong><br /> | ||
| − | [http://www.biblioinfo.com/moon/sf_moon.html | + | [http://www.biblioinfo.com/moon/sf_moon.html The Moon in Science Fiction]<br /> |
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| + | <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[February 25, 2009|It's Only a Paper Crater]] </p> | ||
| + | <p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[February 27, 2009|Not Officially Birt R]] </p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:31, 22 March 2015
Sci-Fi Moon
Many scientists and engineers who worked on the Apollo project in the 1960s reported being inspired by science fiction stories that they read as teenagers. This wonderful cover for a 1928 paperback (found a year or so ago on Ebay - don't know who the buyer or seller were!) is the kind of space art (and text) that enchanted me some decades later. The cover offers the enticement of a person (in a Spiderman-tight space suit) amidst the craters and crags of the Moon. The back cover is a simple, but relatively accurate, map of the Moon with actual lunar names correctly placed. Are young people stimulated by today's science fiction - or have our science accomplishments eliminated such imaginative dreaming?
Chuck Wood
This LPOD originally appeared Jan 21, 2005
Related Links
The Moon in Science Fiction
Yesterday's LPOD: It's Only a Paper Crater
Tomorrow's LPOD: Not Officially Birt R
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