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The NASA Archives. 60 Years in Space 1

by Piers BizonyRoger Launius and Andrew Chaikin
Hardback
Publication Date: 13/11/2018
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To Infinity and Beyond Journey through the U.S. space program’s fascinating pictorial history 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 men to the moon .

ISBN:
9783836569507
9783836569507
Category:
Photographs: collections
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
13-11-2018
Publisher:
Taschen GmbH
Country of origin:
Germany
Pages:
492
Dimensions (mm):
330x330mm
Weight:
5.5kg
Piers Bizony

An experienced multimedia professional, Piers Bizony has written about science and the history of technology for a wide variety of publishers worldwide, and has undertaken major projects for the media departments at NASA and ESA.

An experienced multimedia professional, Piers Bizony has written about science and the history of technology for a wide variety of publishers worldwide, and has undertaken major projects for the media departments at NASA and ESA.

He has also gained substantial experience within the film and television industries. The author of Quarto's Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years, One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered, and New Space Frontiers, Bizony spent the last three years working closely with the family of Stanley Kubrick, in conjunction with Warner Bros. and fine art publishers Taschen on a large-format book about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Stunning photographs from a seminal period of human exploration accompanied by fascinating recollections from those who were there.

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