Greetings,
this sub-group can cover all minutiae related to the now-numerous "sister" publications to the venerable NGM.
To wit, here's a run-down in chronological order...
and also: the Collector's Editions that have been a staple of newsstand/retail since 2001.
Scott T. Shier
I've never really had a hankering for (trying to) collect the School Bulletins, even though I have some odd 'sample' copies.
However, as you just showed, I have had on my low-priority to-do list to at least get all the space-theme related covers. Wonderful illustrations!
Apr 21, 2017
George Thomas Wilson
Note: While not being spaceflight related, I thought I'd add this cover to this discussion. It is the School Bulletin from March 1970 and is about the solar eclipse occurring that month. I thought it would be appropriate, especially with the "Great American Eclipse" due this August. The photo is courtesy of Abramo Russo.
Interesting, I saw the March 1970 eclipse in totality at Wallops Island, Virginia. Wallops is a NASA facility and they launched about three dozen sounding rockets during the eclipse to study its effects on the upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere. It was quite a show, but no comparison to the total eclipse itself.
May 4, 2017