In 1938 a committee of the British Interplanetary Society drew up
the first serious plans for a manned lunar spacecraft. The BIS moon
ship would be the first in a long line of designs that would
ultimately lead to Tranquility Base and beyond. Working alongside
engineers and scientists from Britain, Canada and Germany, the
elite of American industrial engineers turned their attention to
not only reaching the moon but to establishing a long-term presence
there. Between 1958 and 1971 millions of man-hours and untold
amounts of money were spent to try and create the hardware
necessary to accomplish this unprecedented goal. In this book for
the first time in one place, is a pictorial register of many of
these incredible designs. A remarkable story of what might have
happened if the mighty Saturn V rocket had not been relegated to
the status of an historical footnote. In his latest book, "The
Lunar Exploration Scrapbook", noted editor and writer Robert
Godwin, has distilled years of research into an unprecedented look
at the many machines considered by the United States for lunar
exploration. Combining the blueprints of the 1950s and 1960s with
modern computer graphics, Godwin has brought to life many of the
past, and packed them all into one tightly woven package of colour
and facts. The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook features colour
texture-wrapped renderings of dozens of designs that never left the
drawing board, creating a unique look at what might have happened
if money had been no object, and humanity had gone to the moon to
stay.
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