The Illustrated History of NASA [VINTAGE 1988] [REVISED SPECIAL ANNVERSARY EDITION]

Kerrod, Robin

Edité par Gallery Books, an imprint of W. H. Smith Publishers Inc., New York, 1988

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Fine condition heavy oversized color photographic boards contained in a near fine condition color photographic dust jacket. The Table of Contents is as follows: Introduction; The Dream of Yesterday; The Race Is On; The Journey to Tranquility; New Directions; A Magnificent Flying Machine; The Buck Rogers Era; Satellite Servants and Planetary Probes; Welcome to NASA; The Way Ahead; NASA Milestones and Index. Profusely illustrated with both black-and-white and full page color photographs plus color photographic front and rear endpapers. "In just three decades NASA has thrust American space technology to dizzy heights of achievement that can scarcely be believed. NASA has devised ingenious electronic moons that have revolutionized communications and weather forecasting; it has built skyscraper-high rockets that have whisked men to the Moon; it has dispatched instrumented robots to probe the outer reaches of the solar system and spy on the great gas-balls of planets there. And it has created in the space shuttle the first true space plane and perhaps the key to the future exploration of the universe. With a riveting narrative and packed with hundreds of the most spectacular pictures of the Space Age. The Illustrated History of NASA chronicles America's exciting journey into space, from a rocket launch in a snow-covered field at Auburn, Massachusetts, in 1926 to the orbital antics of shuttle astronauts nearly 60 years later. It is all here - the agony of getting the first American satellite into space; the ecstasy of Edward White's first spacewalk; the triumph of Neil Armstrong's historic 'small step' in the lunar soil; the tragedy of orbiter Challenger and the death of seven heroes; the euphoric high of the incredible Voyager 2 images of Uranus and the abysmal low of the Rogers commission's findings of NASA's 'flawed decision making', both within the space of 6 months. Agony and ecstasy, triumph and tragedy, highs and lows - they are always present when we seek to probe new frontiers. And so it has proved with the last great frontier - Space. This revised Special Anniversary Edition of The Illustrated History of NASA has been updated and extended to examine NASA's future role in space exploration, following the report on the Challenger disaster by the Rogers commission and Sally Ride's report on the future direction of the US space initiative. It looks forward to a vigorous new program rising phoenix-like from the ashes of Challenger, taking in a permanently manned space station, hypersonic space planes, bases on the Moon and outposts on Mars." - from the inner rear jacket flap.

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• Titre: The Illustrated History of NASA [VINTAGE 1988] [REVISED SPECIAL ANNVERSARY EDITION]
• Éditeur: Gallery Books, an imprint of W. H. Smith Publishers Inc., New York
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine