The Art of NASA

Auteur

Piers Bizony is the author of The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA's First Space Plane and One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered, both from Zenith Press. He has written about science, aerospace, and cosmology for a wide variety of magazines in the United Kingdom and the United States. His previous books include 2001: Filming the Future, The Rivers of Mars, Starman (a biography of Yuri Gagarin), and Space: 50, marking the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik.

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Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Résumé
In The Art of NASA, ultra-rare artworks illustrate a unique history of NASA hardware and missions from 1958 to today, giving readers an unprecedented look at how spacecraft, equipment, and missions evolvedand how they might have evolved.

Contenu

FIRST COMES THE DREAM
How Art Showed the Way to Space
 
1 THIS NEW OCEAN
The Dawn of the American Space Age
 
2 ONE GIANT LEAP
The Voyages of Project Apollo
 
3 ISLANDS IN THE SKY
Inhabiting the Realm of Earth Orbit
 
4 BRAVE NEW WORLDS
Back to the Moon & Toward The Red Planet
 
5 THE EXPANSE
Exploring Depths of Space Beyond Mars
 
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