Ok, so I am trying to find/remember a book from my childhood. It would have been published somewhere between 1960-1975. It was a children’s storybook/picturebook. About the shape and size of a Little Golden Book, but searching on the various websites dedicated to Little Golden Books has come up empty. When I say “pictures” throughout, know that I am not talking about photographs, just to be clear, but illustrations.
The book was about space travel, and was a “realistic” look at it. I think it had an astronaut on the cover, but I could be mis-remembering. I recall that there were “scenes” in the book about how/what an astronaut eats, and specifically there was a picture of an astronaut eating a cracker. I am 99% certain that the space capsules shown in the book were “Apollo” vintage, and not Gemini, and certainly far earlier than the Space Shuttle.
I guess it’s possible. Not in our solar system, but somewhere with a dense molecular cloud and a star capable of producing a spectrum of those colors. Educationally sound indeed.
Either that or they’re nose-diving into the surface of Earth.
I know it’s not the book, but just wondered if you’d ever seen “The Runaway Robot” by Lester del Rey. It got me hooked on SF when I was 9. Love those classic children’s books!
