America In Space: NASA's First Fifty Years (Nasa) | Steven Dick, Robert Jacobs, ...

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	America In Space: NASA's First Fifty Years (Nasa) Steven Dick, Robert Jacobs, ... Abrams Books, 2007 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Beautiful Pictures

The volume is worth the price of admission for the
pictures alone. There are spectacular views of the
Pillars of Creation where new stars have been born.
The Drion Nebulla is depicted in all its splendor.
There is an excellent picture of Mercury from the
Mariner 10. The Mars Odyssey of 2002 produced
a scene that looks like a great sand dune.

The space program is described from its early
beginnings on 4-13-1915 by President Woodrow Wilson.
The Apollo program (1961-1975) culminated in landing
a man on the moon. The Apollo 11 took back 47.7
samples of lunar rocks and artifacts. Pictures of
the Space Shuttle and International Space Station
are shown to "round out" the overall presentation.
Virtually every major astronaut is depicted in
full color presentations including the space garments.

The acquisition would be well worth the price for
the student or space enthusiast in your household.

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For space buffs...

Big & heavy! Spectacular selection of photos (with little text). As said by another reviewer, photo 270-271 is marvellous!
IMHO this book is not like other selections of space photos that abound. I think this one somewhat summarizes in color what we (space buffs) have in text, in our bookshelves, with the appropriate image size.

I bought two copies!

If you love space history and exploration please be careful, you might end up buying two copies like I did; just so I could have one copy for my office at work and one for home.

It's a big book. Great pictures. Just a delight to own. Makes a great coffee table book. Would make a great gift too.

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A great book

This book is huge and pretty expensive. It is not for the casual reader. It is so big you have to set it on a table to look at it. Some of the pictures are classics, that you will be familiar with. But many are rare shots that you do not see often, if at all. My father worked for the space program back in the 1960's and he loves this book.

This is a keeper!

This book is huge, look at the dimensions before you buy (14.5 x 11.2 x 1.4 inches), when it's open it takes over 22 inchs of desk or lap space. It's mostly high quality color pictures and very little text. I grew up during the start of the US space program and find most of the early pictures fascinating. The book is sectioned off by different space programs beginning with project Mercury and ends with our current programs. Other non-space programs that were required for the run-up to Mercury are covered as well. I wish there was more written about each of the different space programs. It's a good buy if you have the room for it.

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