This is the short story included with the original Leif Ericson kit. I ran the instruction sheet through an OCR program to extract the text. There are a few OCR induced punctuation errors, but the story (and its typos) have remained unchanged. Background Information On The “LEIF ERICSON,” And The STRATEGIC SPACE COMMAND SERIES The
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The Moonship from The Conquest of Space, by Chesley Bonestell and Willy Ley is a classic, iconic rocketship design from the 1940s and 50s. I used artwork in The Conquest of Space, the Moonship chapter in Spaceship Handbook (Jack Hagerty and Jon C. Rogers, ARA Press, 2001) and a print of the Moonship drawings from
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The Conquest of Space, by Chesley Bonestell and Willy Ley, was one of my favorite books as a child; I checked it out often from the library. Bonestell’s artwork has always been an inspiration. I recently obtained my own copy of the 1958 edition of The Conquest of Space and one of the ships illustrated
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