Article ID: CBB001214667

Comment on “Let's Go to the Moon” (2014)

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Volland, Nicolai (Author)


Journal of Asian Studies
Volume: 73
Pages: 353--358


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Comment on an article in the same volume.
Language: English

Things were getting busy on the major flight corridors between the Earth and Mars, or so the casual observer of socialist bloc science fiction from the 1950s might come to believe. While there are no reports of intergalactic traffic jams, Mars was becoming a destination of choice in science fiction from both sides of the Iron Curtain. In her fascinating article, Dafna Zur details the exploits of an international exploratory mission to the red planet, consisting of children from a dozen nations, including North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union. It remains unknown whether the explorers from Kim Tong Sop's serialized novel Youth Space Expedition Team met any other socialist space travelers on their way to Mars. But they could have very well run into spaceship #1, commanded by Zhenzhen, the protagonist of Zheng Wenguang's (1929--2003) Cong diqiu dao huoxing (From the Earth to Mars) (Zheng 1954a).

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Article Zur, Dafna (2014) Let's Go to the Moon: Science Fiction in the North Korean Children's Magazine Adong Munhak, 1956--1965. Journal of Asian Studies (pp. 327-351). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Siddiqi, Asif A.
Rod Pyle
Zur, Dafna
Zimmermann, Robert
Weitekamp, Margaret Ann
Treadwell, Terry C.
Concepts
Space travel; space flight
Space programs
Space research and exploration
Astronautics
Space
Science and culture
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
North Korea
Germany
Europe
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Project Apollo (NASA)
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