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Moon race ads had the right stuff
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
In the just-released A nother Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race, 1957-1962, historian Megan Prelinger takes readers on a tour of the alluring ads used to lure engineers into the rocket racket. In style, the ads seem born more out of the pages of Amazing Stories than any employment notices tried before or since.Fresh from a book signing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum (NASM), Prelinger stopped by USA TODAY to talk. Read more
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