- America
In Space: NASA's First Fifty Years - NASA launches a yearlong
celebration of its 50th anniversary in the fall of 2007, and
Abrams is privileged to publish this visual history of its
many achievements in manned and unmanned space travel. Written
and edited by a team of experienced NASA staffers, and illustrated
with many unpublished and rare photographs from the
voluminous NASA archives scattered across the country, America
in Space offers an unparalleled vision of half a century of
exploration and discovery. The story of America’s space
age is told with more than 400 carefully selected images.
The story 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. America in Space is a photographic
record of the greatest adventure of our time.
- Apollo:
The Definitive Sourcebook - An 25 May 1961, John F Kennedy
announced the goal of landing an American man on the Moon
by the end of the decade. This challenge forced NASA to review
the planned lunar landing of a three-man spaceship named Apollo
in the mid-1970s. In 1962, it was decided that a specialized
vehicle would accompany the main spacecraft, to make the lunar
landing while the mothership remained in lunar orbit. To send
these vehicles to the Moon would require the development of
an enormous rocket. Development was protracted, but in December
1968 Apollo 8 was launched on a pioneering mission to perform
an initial reconnaissance in lunar orbit. When Apollo 17 lifted
off from the Moon in December 1972, the program was concluded.
Now, at long last, there is a real prospect of a resumption
of human exploration of the Moon. This book provides
an overview of the origins of the Apollo program and descriptions
of the ground facilities, launch vehicles and spacecraft
that will serve as an invaluable single-volume sourcebook
for space enthusiasts, space historians, journalists, and
programme-makers on radio and TV. It supplements tha
other books that have focused on the politics and management
of the Apollo program, the astronauts, and their training
and exploits.
- Reference
Guide to the International Space Station - This book is
designed to provide a broad overview of the International
Space Station's complex configuration, design, and component
systems. The sophisticated procedures required in the Station's
construction and operation are presented in Amazing 3D Graphics
generated by NASA 104 pages of spectacularly detailed color
graphics the Space Station as you’ve never seen
it before! If you haven’t got the $20 Million . . .
get this book. It’s almost as good as being there.
- Return-To-Flight
Space Shuttle Discovery - After Columbia disintegrated
during entry on 1 February 2003, NASA grounded the entire
Space Shuttle fleet until it could ascertain what had gone
wrong and fix the problem. Whenever an aerospace program is
grounded for a prolonged period, the first flight after the
grounding is often called the Return-to-Flight. After 30 months
of work, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Program’s Return-to-Flight
– called STS-114 – using Discovery. This flight
was the most-photographed Space Shuttle flight ever, with
numerous cameras on the ground, ships, and aircraft tracking
the vehicle during ascent, and the crew of the International
Space Station taking a series of detailed photographs as the
Orbiter approached the ISS. In addition, the crew of the Discovery
used cameras in the cockpit and on a long robotic arm to examine
almost every inch of the Orbiter. The result was some stunning
photography that shows the Space Shuttle in ways that
have never before been seen. It is presented here, in full
color, as the program readies to fly the second Return
to Flight launch – STS-121 – also using Discover
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