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Houston, Space City USA (Hardcover)
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Houston, Space City USA (Hardcover)
Series: Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
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On July 20, 1969, humanity paused with attention locked to
television and radio broadcasts as the astronauts of the Apollo 11
mission dramatically touched down on the dusty face of the moon.
The first word from the lunar surface: Houston. Houston, Space City
USA is a visual celebration of the city's historic ties to the US
human space program. When President Kennedy declared, ""We choose
to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not
because they are easy, but because they are hard,"" he did so from
the campus of Rice University. More than half a century later,
Houston continues to serve as the nerve center of the American
human space program. Author and photographer Ray Viator, a longtime
Houstonian, has lovingly captured the spirit of a city's devotion
to space exploration from then to now. Using striking photographs
of the full moon as a visual motif of Houston's connection to
spaceflight, Viator also weaves together historic images to show
how former cow pastures transformed into mission control. Some
connections are obvious-the Houston Astros or the Houston Rockets.
Others are hidden in plain sight, like the arm patches on the
uniform of every Houston police officer that read, ""Space City
U.S.A."" Viator's lens captures this and more. Houston, Space City
USA not only marks the important milestone of the first lunar
landing, but it also helps readers discover and rediscover a city's
constellation of connections to one of humankind's greatest
achievements.
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