Cultural Relics From the Space Race Rescued From the Trash

Visual Science
By Rebecca Horne
May 13, 2010 6:00 PMOct 11, 2019 4:27 PM
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Frank Tinsley illustration for Bosch

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What is garbage to one is gold to another. The juicy new title by Blast Books, “Another Science Fiction” is proof. Incredibly, most of the images in this book came from discards from several libraries that were rescued by author and space history buff Megan Prelinger for her library in San Fransico, Prelinger Library. When Prelinger came across these images in magazines (like Aviation Week and Missiles and Rockets) that the Houston public library was throwing away, she was smitten. The book featuring these advertisements from the early space-race years followed.

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