The 50-year quest to conquer the final frontier - this compelling story of exploration beyond our own planet chronicles and celebrates man in space, from Sputnik's momentous first foray to the spellbinding missions planned for the future. Introduced by astronaut Buzz Aldrin, with unforgettable images and vivid first hand accounts, "SpaceFlight" shows how satellite and manned missions have dramatically changed human life. From pioneers like Werner Von Braun and Yuri Gagarin to the triumphs and tragedies of succeeding programmes, read about the people, the science and the hardware that have propelled us into the space age.
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An introduction to the history of launching people into space, this visual vault introduces the subject with immediacy. The volume hopes, writes moonwalker Buzz Aldrin in a foreword, to inspire the next generation of space travelers, and the design certainly arrests attention. In more than 800 photographs organized on two-page spreads, the album introduces theoreticians of space technology such as Konstantin Tsiolkovskii; explains the evolving technology with arrowed diagrams of rockets, capsules, and space suits; dramatizes landmark space missions from Sputnik to China's recent launches of taikonauts; and reproduces images of space-age paraphernalia, such as postal stamps and mission patches. A positive distinction of the presentation is its national balance: the Soviet space program is amply pictured, especially its successes with space stations, and the space activities of Europe, India, and Japan are depicted as well. Aiming for breadth, the author also describes robotic planetary missions; includes several spectaculars from the Hubble Space Telescope; and points to future directions of private spaceships and NASA's proposed successors to the space shuttle. Space browsers will gravitate to this colorful tome. Taylor, Gilbert
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"A feast for the eyes and a treat for the historian in all of us...a magnificent volume." -- Aerospace Legacy Foundation magazine
"A must-have for any space enthusiast's library." -- LAUNCH magazine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"A must-have for any space enthusiast's library." -- LAUNCH magazine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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One of the best Space Program books,
This review is from: Spaceflight: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Shuttle - And Beyond (Hardcover)
I have a collection of space books from DK's the Universe, Illustrated History of NASA, Atlas of the Universe, Apollo and now Space Flight. This book has a great many pictures of the historical figures from the space program as well as cutaways of rockets and spacecraft and of course space. In my opinion if you already own DK's universe. Get this book even though Universe has the space program in that book. This has more detail.
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An Outstanding Mini-Encyclopedia on Space Travel,
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In common with many other books on this subject, this one has many photos and descriptions of the major milestones in manned flight. It starts with early experiments with rockets, then Sputnik, Laika, and Gagarin, then the 1960's "space race" to the moon, which the US won, then Skylab, then the historic 1975 joint US-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz flight, then the Shuttle, etc. Each major milestone is described in a two-page facing format.
This book differs from most other books on this subject in two obvious ways. For one thing, it devotes a balance of attention to the American and Soviet space programs. Also, it provides many cutout drawings that help the reader understand technical details on the operation of rockets, spacecraft, and their components (for example, the Lunar Module, which ferried US astronauts from the lunar orbit to the lunar surface and back to lunar orbit).
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A great encyclopedia of space,
By Tahir Rahman (Kansas City, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Spaceflight: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Shuttle - And Beyond (Hardcover)
A wonderful overview of the space program. The pictures are oversized and well presented. Good for the entire family or space enthusiast. I especially enjoyed the pages with diagrams that are packed with great information.
-Tahir Rahman, author of We Came in Peace for all Mankind: the untold story of the Apollo 11 silicon disc
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