Proposal for Golden book on space sciences, by Heinz Haber, circa 1963.

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Like Wernher von Braun, German physicist Heinz Haber (1913–1990) was targeted by Operation Paperclip and brought to the United States after World War II, where Haber began to work for the US military on space medicine research. During the escalating Soviet-American Space Race, Haber took his personal connections and knowledge of groundbreaking space research to editor Lucille Ogle of Golden Press/Western Publishing, the largest publisher of children’s books at the time, to develop books on the “space sciences” for children. Haber separates astronomy from the nascent field of “space sciences” as one which has “recently become a strong economic factor in the life of our nation and a public affair of the highest importance. Its past, present, and future development is highlighted by a continuous sequence of current events. Its intellectual impact upon the thinking of the modern world is very great” (p. 2).
Attribution:
Lucille Ogle papers, Coll 201, Box 38, Folder 7.
Date:
circa 1963