Andrew Chaikin is een veelgeprezen wetenschapsjournalist en ruimtevaart-historicus wiens productieve carrière meer dan 25 jaar omvat van het schrijven over ruimteverkenning en astronomie. Zijn werken, met name "A Man on the Moon", worden algemeen erkend als definitieve verslagen van maanmissies en vormen een significante vormgeving van het publieke begrip van ruimtevaartgeschiedenis. Chaikins boeken, gebaseerd op uitgebreid onderzoek en intieme interviews met astronauten, bieden boeiende verhalen over menselijke inspanningen en wetenschappelijke prestaties buiten de aarde. Zijn schrijfwerk, zowel door critici als lezers geprezen, blijft nieuwe generaties die gefascineerd zijn door de kosmos inspireren en onderwijzen.
Prepare to embark on a journey through space and time with The NASA Archives, a visual celebration of humankind's unstoppable urge to travel away from Earth to worlds beyond. Featuring hundreds of historic photographs and concept renderings, this collection guides us through NASA's 60-year history.
In very good condition, but dust sleeve has creases and minor tears. Book itself is A1.
'Through the windows of the slowly turning spacecraft they looked out at the place where the sun had once been, and there was the moon- a huge, magnificent sphere bathed in the eerie blue light of earthshine, each crater rendered in ghostly detail.' The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant step' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250,000 miles away. A Man on the Moon is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme- from the tragedy of the fire in Apollo 1 during a simulated launch, through the euphoria of the first moonwalk, to the discoveries made by the first scientist in space aboard Apollo 17. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the astronauts and team, this is the story of the twentieth century's greatest human achievement, minute-by-minute, in the words of those who were there. 'Impressive and illuminating' -Tom Hanks