The Nasa Archives: 60 Years in Space - Couverture rigide

Bizony, Piers; Chaikin, Andrew; Launius, Roger, Dr.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3836588080 ISBN 13 : 9783836588089

Editeur : Taschen GmbH, 2022

Synopsis

On October 1, 1958, the world’s first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA, had evolved from modest research teams experimenting with small converted rockets into one of the greatest technological and managerial enterprises ever known, capable of sending people to the Moon aboard gigantic rockets and of dispatching robot explorers to Venus, Mars, and worlds far beyond. In spite of occasional, tragic setbacks in NASA’s history, the Apollo lunar landing project remains a byword for American ingenuity; the winged space shuttles spearheaded the International Space Station and a dazzling array of astronomical satellites and robotic landers, and Earth observation programs have transformed our understanding of the cosmos and our home world’s fragile place within it.

Throughout NASA’s 60-year history, images have played a central role. Who today is not familiar with the Hubble Space Telescope’s mesmerizing views of the universe or the pin-sharp panoramas of Mars from NASA’s surface rovers? And who could forget the photographs of the first men walking on the Moon?

This compact edition is derived from our XL edition, which was researched in collaboration with NASA, and gathers hundreds of historic photographs and rare concept renderings, scanned and remastered using the latest technology. Texts by science and technology journalist Piers Bizony, former NASA chief historian Roger Launius, and best-selling Apollo historian Andrew Chaikin round out this comprehensive exploration of NASA, from its earliest days to its current development of new space systems for the future.

The NASA Archives is more than just a fascinating pictorial history of the U.S. space program. It is also a profound meditation on why we choose to explore space and how we will carry on this grandest of all adventures in the years to come.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Piers Bizony ha escrito sobre ciencia e historia de la tecnología para distintas publicaciones del Reino Unido y Estados Unidos. Uno de sus proyectos recientes, Atom, un libro relacionado con una importante serie de la BBC, cuenta la dramática historia de las rivalidades y pasiones que hubo tras el descubrimiento de la física cuántica. The Man Who Ran the Moon, que glosa la figura de Jim Webb, el administrador jefe de la NASA durante la era lunar, fue encumbrado por la crítica. A comienzos de año, Bizony vendió los derechos de Starman, una biografía fascinante de Yuri Gagarin (escrita en colaboración con Jamie Doran), que se llevará a la gran pantalla. Su texto para The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ es una versión ampliada y actualizada de su monografía 2001: Filming the Future (1994), que fue un éxito de ventas.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Prepare to embark on a journey through space and time with The NASA Archives, a visual celebration of humankind’s unstoppable urge to travel away from Earth to worlds beyond. Featuring hundreds of historic photographs and concept renderings, this collection guides us through NASA’s 60-year history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Taschen GmbH
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3836588080
• ISBN 13: 9783836588089
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 511
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