Demain... l'espace

Wim Dannau, Dino Attanasio (ill.)
Year1958
PublisherÉditions Gérard et Cie
PlaceVerviers
LanguageFR
Pages154
SeriesMarabout Junior
Rating★★★☆☆ (3/5)
AudienceGeneral, Youth
LevelBeginner
Keywords
astronauticsrocketWorld War IIartificial satellitespace race
ThemesSpace Race, Proto-astronautics

Published in 1958 in the Marabout Junior collection (J.125), Demain... l'espace is a popular-science book for young readers illustrated by Dino Attanasio. The first section, "Sans bluff," traces the history of the V-2 rocket and Peenemünde through the first Sputnik and Explorer satellites. The second, "Le futur commence ici," describes projects underway (the X-7 hypersonic aircraft, Dyna-Soar, orbital stations, lunar bases) drawing on the work of von Braun and American engineers. Wim Dannau, then in his early twenties, wrote his first book on a space programme in full ferment.

📖 Editorial Review

In 1958, Wim Dannau is barely twenty when this first book appears, and that may explain its tone: enthusiastic, lively, short on critical distance but never naive. Demain... l'espace is an immediate record of the ferment surrounding the nascent space age, written by a Belgian journalist who knows how to write as …