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Last Launch: Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis Hardcover – May 1, 2012

by Dan Winters (Author), Al Reinert (Contributor), Mark Kelly (Contributor)
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Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Book Festival Book Award, Photography, 2013

Americans have been driven to explore beyond the horizon ever since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. In the twentieth century, that drive took us to the moon and inspired dreams of setting foot on other planets and voyaging among the stars. The vehicle we built to launch those far journeys was the space shuttle—Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. This fleet of reusable spacecraft was designed to be our taxi to earth orbit, where we would board spaceships heading for strange new worlds. While the shuttle program never accomplished that goal, its 135 missions sent more than 350 people on a courageous journey into the unknown.

Last Launch is a stunning photographic tribute to America’s space shuttle program. Dan Winters was one of only a handful of photographers to whom NASA gave close-range access to photograph the last launches of Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. Positioning automatically controlled cameras at strategic points around the launch pad—some as close as seven hundred feet—he recorded images of take-offs that capture the incredible power and transcendent beauty of the blast that sends the shuttle hurtling into space. Winters also takes us on a visual tour of the shuttle as a marvel of technology—from the crew spaces with their complex instrumentation, to the massive engines that propelled the shuttle, to the enormous vehicle assembly building where the shuttles were prepared for flight.

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Known for the broad range of subject matter he is able to interpret, Dan Winters has had his photographs published in Esquire, GQ, Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Time, Texas Monthly, Wired, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and many other national and international publications. Aperture published a book of his magazine work titled Dan Winters: Periodical Photographs. Winters has won over one hundred national and international awards from American Photography, Communication Arts, the Society of Publication Designers, PDN, the Art Directors Club of New York, and Life, among others, as well as the prestigious Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography and a world press photo award in the arts category. In 2003, he was honored by Kodak as a photo “Icon” in their biographical “Legends” series.

Based in Austin, Texas, Al Reinert is a film director, screenwriter, and producer, best known for producing and directing the Academy Award-nominated documentary For All Mankind about NASA's Apollo program. He cowrote the screenplays for Apollo 13 and other films.

A veteran of four space flights to the International Space Station, Mark Kelly was a captain in the United States Navy when he commanded the final mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour in May of 2011. With his wife, Gabrielle Giffords, he coauthored Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Texas Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 1, 2012
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Firsttion ed.
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 029273963X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0292739635
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.28 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.5 x 0.9 x 12 inches
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Customers praise the book's photography, describing it as truly outstanding and breathtakingly beautiful. They appreciate the content, with one customer noting how it helps remember the space age period. However, the page count receives criticism, with multiple customers mentioning that 44 of the 176 pages are blank.

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Customers appreciate the photography in the book, describing it as truly outstanding and breathtakingly beautiful, with one customer noting the spectacular detail and another mentioning the stand-alone pictures of the engines.

"Is a beautiful book with really impressive images that help in remembering this epical space age period...." Read more

"...The pictures are beautiful, so clear that you can read the numbers on the tiles...." Read more

"...Many pages have images that are just jaw-dropping in their beauty, and the book backs them up 100% with the quality of the layout and materials...." Read more

"...And the photos in this book took my breath away. They are stunningly beautiful. The subject matter is unique and off the beaten path...." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's content, with one noting its unique subject matter and another mentioning how it helps remember the space age period.

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Customers criticize the book's page count, noting that 44 out of 176 pages are blank.

"...As I was looking through the book, I noticed blank pages in the book; I thought maybe I had a mis-printed book...." Read more

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  • James Knapper
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, large format photos in this huge book!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2012
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    Well, I received the book today. I ordered this book a year ago in November, so it had been a long time coming. It is big at 12" long and 10" wide. There is a little bit of text, mostly at the beginnig (including some text from Mark Kelly), but most of the book is pictures of the shuttle taking up almost the entire page. The pictures are beautiful, so clear that you can read the numbers on the tiles. There is a picture of the aft-end of the shuttle with all three engines removed which shows spectacular detail of the insides of that area. There are also stand-alone pictures of the engines and other elements such as the control console at Mission Control. As I was looking through the book, I noticed blank pages in the book; I thought maybe I had a mis-printed book. At the end of the book, however, there are thumbnails of each page, telling you what you were looking at, and it shows the blank pages. I just found that a strange choice. I would have liked the author to use all of that real-estate to display other pictures. However, that does not detract from the overall book. The pictures are amazing, and it is a must for any Shuttle fan.
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  • ChiDesign
    5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic book from cover to cover.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2017
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    The quality of printing for color gloss is just stunning. There is a metallic sheen to some pages that is remarkably intense. Many pages have images that are just jaw-dropping in their beauty, and the book backs them up 100% with the quality of the layout and materials. If you are interested in the subject, buy this book- you won't regret it.
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  • Christian Rishel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtakingly Beautiful
    Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2013
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    I bought this book after learning about the photographer and this series of photos on Pinterest. While I claim no expertise on photography, I can speak with great authority as a space nerd. And the photos in this book took my breath away. They are stunningly beautiful. The subject matter is unique and off the beaten path. You can almost "smell" the subject matter.

    One of the best treats I've given myself in a long time.
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  • Jeff DeTroye
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you are into great pictures of space hardware, this is the book you want
    Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2012
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    This is an "art" book. Beautiful close up photos of each of the last three space-worthy shuttles taken during the processing cycle for their last launch. Just enough text so that a reader unfamiliar with the Shuttle will know what they are looking at. Definitely worth the money.
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  • Qwerty Johnson
    5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful book
    Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2014
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    The cover caught my eye as I recognized it as the STS-134 launch (which i was able to experience in person). The photographs are amazing and the physical book is very well crafted.
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  • Steve
    4.0 out of 5 stars Would prefer a bit more variety in the photos selected - still very impressive.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2018
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    I bought this book hoping that it would have a number of different angles and photos. Make no mistake - this project is a very impressive piece of work and is beautifully printed on very high quality paper. While the launch photos were mostly shot from fixed (unattended :-) camera positions, I would have liked to see a bit more variety in the photos selected for the book. I still feel it's a very worthwhile piece of work.
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  • gvgv37
    1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
    Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2024
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    Photographies are not as good as expected.
    And they are too large to appreciate.
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  • Muller
    1.0 out of 5 stars Somewhere between disappointing and awful, but definitely thin
    Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2012
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    I received my eagerly-awaited copy of this book today. I shouldn't have bothered.

    It's a good thing, for the authors and editor (if in fact there was an editor), that none of the pages is numbered. The plain truth is that 44 of the 176 pages are blank, and several of the remaining pages contain only a trivial image. If you have been paying attention to the space shuttle program, either in print or on the web, you will not find very much new, or even very much of anything, in this work.

    University of Texas Press, you should have higher standards for content and layout.

    I purchased this book at a discount, but even so I'm embarrassed to have bought it.
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  • aseptic404
    4.0 out of 5 stars Bellissima raccolta di foto sulle ultime missioni dello SHUTTLE
    Reviewed in Italy on November 15, 2013
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    Non ho dato 5 stelle piene perché alcune foto sono un po' "riempitive", per far volume, mentre altre sono veramente spettacolari e meriterebbero di essere stampate e appese al muro.
    Consigliatissimo, un'opera da avere anche a livello storico.
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  • G444
    5.0 out of 5 stars Would recommend.
    Reviewed in Germany on January 11, 2016
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    I was sceptical about buying this given that there are quite so many free high resolution images to be found online.
    It's not a cheap book.
    But the approach to capturing the Space Shuttle era is a pleasant surprise. The quality of the photos, the layout of the book and the books print quality are superb.
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  • RunBikeRow
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beuatiful book on Shuttle
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2024
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    This is such a beautiful book. The images are amazing. The detail you can spend hours pouring over an the access he gets for these images is just amazing. Highly recommended. Book is beautifully presented.
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  • GARETH
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful work, with all the hallmarks of Winters’ sensibility
    Reviewed in Australia on April 19, 2023
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    A pleasure to look through a collection of work that focuses on a subject that Winters holds such reverence for. Anyone who follows Winters work knows of his love and fascination for space exploration- from a young boy watching the moon landing on tv to a photographer who has now made contributions to the visual archive of modern day space travel through various assignments for publications such as Time, Nat Geo, and Wired among others. A great collection of images to look through.
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  • pber31
    3.0 out of 5 stars Belles photos, mais...
    Reviewed in France on February 25, 2014
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    Livre plutôt orienté photos pure.
    Pas d'explication.
    Un beau livre, pas forcement fait pour les fanas de la navette.... mais plutôt les accros de la photo.
    Un peu déçu.
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