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Les Archives de la NASA. 60 ans dans l'espace (English, French, Hardcover)
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Les Archives de la NASA. 60 ans dans l'espace (English, French, Hardcover)
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On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened
for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch
of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA,
had evolved from modest research teams experimenting with small
converted rockets into one of the greatest technological and
managerial enterprises ever known, capable of sending people to the
Moon aboard gigantic rockets and of dispatching robot explorers to
Venus, Mars, and worlds far beyond. In spite of occasional, tragic
setbacks in NASA's history, the Apollo lunar landing project
remains a byword for American ingenuity; the winged space shuttles
spearheaded the International Space Station and a dazzling array of
astronomical satellites and robotic landers, and Earth observation
programs have transformed our understanding of the cosmos and our
home world's fragile place within it. Throughout NASA's 60-year
history, images have played a central role. Who today is not
familiar with the Hubble Space Telescope's mesmerizing views of the
universe or the pin-sharp panoramas of Mars from NASA's surface
rovers? And who could forget the photographs of the first men
walking on the Moon? Researched with the collaboration of NASA,
this collection gathers more than 400 historic photographs and rare
concept renderings, scanned and remastered using the latest
technology and reproduced in extra-large size. Texts by science and
technology journalist Piers Bizony, former NASA chief historian
Roger Launius, and best-selling Apollo historian Andrew Chaikin-and
an extensive mission checklist documenting the key human and
robotic missions-round out this comprehensive exploration of NASA,
from its earliest days to its current development of new space
systems for the future.The NASA Archives is more than just a
fascinating pictorial history of the U.S. space program. It is also
a profound meditation on why we choose to explore space and how we
will carry on this grandest of all adventures in the years to come.
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