Nasa: The Complete Illustrated History

Nasa: The Complete Illustrated History
by Michael Gorn

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Author: Michael Gorn
Foreword: Buzz Aldrin
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03
ISBN: 1858944279
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Merrell Holberton

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Book Review: Terrific text, terrific pictures
Summary: 5 Stars

This is an outstanding book whose stellar and insightful text more than matches its wonderfully stunning and extremely well-chosen photography. Its author, Dr. Michael Gorn, is one of our country's great aerospace historians, with many years of significant scholarly and public education accomplishments behind him. He knows how to explain the complexities of American space history and does so always in very clear and engaging prose. I was especially impressed with Gorn's treatment of the remarkable record of NASA's organizational predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). This volume, after spending a number of months on my coffee table, now occupies an honored place on my shelves of important books about NASA and the U.S. space program.

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Summary of Nasa: The Complete Illustrated History

This fascinating book now updated and available in paperback to mark the 50th anniversary of NASA in 2008 tells the remarkable history of America's unrivalled contribution to the exploration of space from the early twentieth century to the present. Award-winning historian Michael H. Gorn covers every US space mission ever undertaken, including those of projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, and the development of the Space Shuttle, and brings the story up to date by explaining the functions of NASA's two windows in space: the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station. This is the first illustrated history of NASA--the National Aeronautics and Space Administration--ever to be published. It reveals the personalities, the personal ambitions, the temperaments of astronauts, scientists and engineers, and the influence of America's presidents on the US space programme, as much as the technological advances that have made space exploration possible. Authoritatively and engagingly written, the book is profusely illustrated throughout with 500 stunning photographs.

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