Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs

From Booklist
From Yuri Gagarin to the no-names riding the International Space Station (ISS), people in spacesuits are the focus of this lavish pictorial chronicle of human spaceflight. Compiler Chaikin clearly intends to restore awe for the human traveler in space. He achieves the desired effect through choosing both famous space-age photos, such as John Glenn inside his capsule or Edwin Aldrin standing on the Moon, and less often seen images. Those of Neil Armstrong grinning in the cockpit of the X-15 rocket plane (and inside the LEM after his moon walk) bespeak the cool technical confidence of astronauts. Yet when Chaikin arrives at the era of space stations, the pictures of people in pedestrian poses are less awe-inspiring. But if the ISS is an expensive bore, the images returned by current robotic spacecraft are much more exciting. Collecting a gallery of Hubble photos, Chaikin restores the thrill. Sure to entrance space enthusiasts. Gilbert Taylor
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Views of space, space ships, astronauts, and planets that date from the earliest era of space exploration through February 2004 fill this volume. The only text is the captions and short chapter introductions, but the spectacular full-page and two- page photos, presented chronologically in an oversize format (11.25x11.25"), make this a thought-provoking pictorial journey.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Description
"The photographs in this book capture a vision of the Heavens and our Earth with a crystal clarity which we are lucky enough to see with our own eyes." - Tom Hanks "The immensity... the beauty... the challenge... the triumph and the tragedies... are captured in Andy Chaikin's elegant photo history." - Neil Armstrong Evocative, dramatic and fascinating, Space is a brilliant collection of more than 300 images that pay tribute to and trace the history of space exploration. This book covers fifty years of this immense human endeavor that started in earnest during the Cold War: - Early theories on space travel - Pioneering flights by the Soviets - NASA's earliest missions - Apollo moon landings - The space shuttle - Space probes and space stations - The future of space exploration. The images -- some very rare -- have been painstakingly researched from American, Russian and other space programs. As a result, this book is both a historical record of this astonishing era and a portfolio of the most stunning scenes ever photographed.


From the Publisher
Evocative, dramatic and fascinating, "Space" is a brilliant collection of more than 300 images that pay tribute to the immense human endeavor, spirit and scientific brilliance that have made the past five decades so thrilling. The images -- some of them rare -- have been painstakingly researched from the American, Russian and other space programs, and the result is a book that is both a historical record of an astonishing era and a portfolio of some of the most stunning images ever photographed. Andrew Chaikin has brought his unrivalled knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, the subject to create a book that captures the incredible events of space exploration like no other.


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Captain James A. Lovell flew on the Gemini 7 and Gemini 12 missions, navigated Apollo 8 and commanded Apollo 13.


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