Flicking through these old issues of Popular Science (available on google books) you can really get a sense of how immediate and vital the beginning of the space race was following the end of WW2. Unsurprisingly, every single cover during the war is dedicated to morale-boosting coverage of advances in military technology, quickly ceeding to the potential new world of space travel at the end of the conflict, yet with some of the same language trailing through.
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