TY - BOOK DB - /z-wcorg/ DP - http://worldcat.org ID - 86090505
LA - English T1 - America in space : NASA's first fifty years A1
- Dick, Steven J., United States., National Aeronautics and
Space Administration., History Office., PB - Abrams CY - New
York Y1 - 2007/// SN - 9780810993730 0810993732 AB - A visual
history of NASA's many achievements in manned and unmanned space
travel, written by a team of experienced NASA staffers and
illustrated with more than 400 images, many of which are
previously unpublished photographs from NASA archives. The story
of America's Space Age begins in the 1950s with intrepid test
pilots venturing ever faster and higher, and opens out into the
now-legendary Mercury and Apollo missions of the 1960s that made
astronauts into national heroes. The Space Shuttle era shows us
what everyday space travel might look like, while grand vistas
of the universe expand our sense of wonder. The large format of
the book captures both the human drama and the vast scale of
NASA's projects.--From