Illustration by John Polgreen for “Space Flight – The Coming Exploration of the Universe” by Lester Del Rey. New York: Golden Press, (1959).

            “Spacemen float in orbit above the Earth in self-propelled, airtight space suits.”

THE GOLDEN LIBRARY OF KNOWLEDGE
Factual Books for Young Readers. 

Photographs and paintings in full color illustrate these scholarly, easy-to-read texts, prepared under the supervision of Dr. Herbert S. Zim, editor of the “Golden Nature Guides,” and authority on science education.

Taken in: United States / Virginia / Washington Forest (show map)

Taken on: December 12, 2020

Tags:

book

books

hardcovers

hardcover book

hardcover books

book art

interior art

outer space

1959

spaceship

spacemen

children's book

space art

Space Flight

Lester Del Rey

Del Rey

John Polgreen

Polgreen

Golden Press

Golden Press Incorporated

Coming Exploration of the Universe

The Coming Exploration of the Universe

Exploration of the Universe

illustration

artwork

color illustration

space illustration

illustrated

science

science education

factual book

young readers

planet Earth

orbit

orbiting

self-propelled

airtight

space suits

space suit

untethered

space walk

space walking

Earth

ocean

water

clawed hands

clawed feet « less

Sets appears in: • Aviation & Space Art

Groups appears in: • RETRO ROCKETS • Spacemen!! Astronauts!! Rocketmen!! more » • Far-Out Outer Space • 1950's • Mid-century Space Illustration • FREAK´ S PARADISE « less

Camera: Apple iPhone XS, f/1.8, 1/55 sec, 4.2mm, ISO 320 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Apple iPhone XS
Lens:	iPhone XS back dual camera 4.25mm f/1.8
Aperture:	f/1.8
Exposure Time:	0.018 sec (1/55)
Focal Length:	4.2mm
ISO:	320
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Express Windows 10 (Windows)
Show full info

Stats: 4,277 views

go back

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder