A lavishly illustrated study of the human experience of space exploration draws on the contributions of forty international space explorers, including John Glenn, Sally Ride, Aleksei Leonov, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Scott Carpenter, and Valentina Tereshkova.
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What must be reckoned one of the most spectacular space picture books of late contains 160 full-color photographs of everything from Alan Shepard's Redstone rocket ready for launch in 1961 to the repaired Hubble telescope being relaunched in 1993. It also contains some 40 little essays by some 30 members of the Association of Space Explorers, the international astronauts' organization that is now celebrating its tenth anniversary. Some of these contain only conventional one-world and environmental sentiments, while others reflect on the difficulties all space farers have had with their hardware, their health, their ground controls, and one another. But the photographs are so well chosen and well reproduced that they guarantee the book entry into most space collections all by themselves; the essays are just a welcome bonus. Highly recommended. Roland Green
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Another publishing triumph in the Space Age. A beautiful book of awe and wonder. Closing the book you are ten feet off the ground and a million miles out in the universe. -- Ray Bradbury
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Wonderful and Exciting Spaceflight Photographs,
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This review is from: The Greatest Adventure/Apollo 13 & Other Space Adventures by Those Who Flew Them! (Hardcover)
The Association of Space Explorers is a unique group of individuals whose only requirement for membership is that one has to have journeyed into space. The goal of the ASE is to bring the excitement and wonder of space exploration to the general public. This book, "The Greatest Adventure" is their second book dedicated to this ideal, and is an excellent companion to their first book, "The Home Planet."This coffee table book presents some of the best photographs taken of the Earth and a few of the Moon by both astronauts and cosmonauts, from the early days of the space race till the mid-1990's when this book was published. Due to the coffee table format of the book, the high resolution, color photographs are extremely impressive. Accompanying these wonderful photographs is a small piece describing each astronaut's voyage and impression of being in space which includes the entire range of astronauts, from commanders, pilots and mission specialists. New printings of this book are common, so if it is listed as not being in print, check back frequently, because a new print might be out soon.
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