Sunfresh isn't a brand a I recall, but the booklets publishers, Odhams are a very well respected British publisher, who were very popular in the sixties. The little 36 page book is only about 3" long and would probably have been either attached to the label on the bottle, or been a mail-away. Inside, its dated 1967 and it covers Gagarin's famous achievement, before focussing more on the Mercury and Gemini missions, with a little about the nascent Apollo programme. In fact Saturn 1 is the closest we get to the launch vehicle with a very stylised Apollo/LEM combination on the cover.
The last panel is the most interesting, as it shows a good looking wheel space station. The scans are a little wobbly, as the rusting staples have foxed the paper, making it a little fragile to open out fully.
I love the idea that these were attached to the bottles of OJ Wote! That's such a cool and simple marketing idea and about the only place you could do anything on a bottle! Beautiful little cameos of space tech as well. I like the lemon yellow space capsule. I wonder if this would be popular now, OJ space labels. There's more space activity than ever before. I've read that some of the richest men in the world all want to be big in space: Bezos, Musk and Branson. Its a billionaire's space race!
ReplyDeleteJohn Sissons wonderful Dreams of Space site, has an italian book, featuring the very same sace station, but from a much better angle:
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That space station also features on the cover of Space Base, along with ... the Nuclear Ferry cab! John covered this book too! https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/search?q=%22space+base%22
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