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Sunday, April 13, 2025

"Who Will be Next..."

 "...to launch Man in Space?"

Gantry, rocket launcher

 

   This commercial from that time answers that!


    I still remember* how absolutely large my eyes were and agape my mouth became when I tore open the Christmas wrapping to uncover the  Deluxe Reading 'Man in Space: Operation X-500' toy assembly within! "Wow! What a toy!"

1960 Ad art


Fuller advertisement copy

    $11.88 for the complete set?! Sounds like a steal! However, that would be roughly $126.24 in today's skyrocketing prices! (Pun intended.) Like, out of this world! Astronomical!

*Funny thing: memory. I vividly recall many elements of the set, while other items not at all!

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