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Moonshots: 50 Years of NASA Space Exploration Seen Through Hasselblad Cameras

Autor Piers Bizony
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 sep 2019
Available in paperback to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Moonshots presents stunning photos of space and Earth from NASA's archives--taken by Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and ISS astronauts using high resolution Hasselblad cameras. In December 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 captured images depicting Earth hanging like a lonely fruit in the vast darkness of space. The social and spiritual shock of that photograph--and those which followed--never fully diminished, even as Apollo missions followed at an incredible pace, including the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969. Moonshots is the definitive photographic chronicle of NASA space exploration, featuring more than 200 remarkable large-format photographs from that eventful era. Though a number of these images have been reproduced in books and magazines over the years, one attribute of this incredible collection has seldom been exploited: the sheer size and resolution of the photography. Aerospace author Piers Bizony scoured NASA's archives of Hasselblad film frames to assemble the space fan's ultimate must-have book. This resulting volume extracts a stunning selection of photographs captured by astronauts using Hasselblad equipment, many of them seldom previously published. The Apollo voyages form the centerpiece of this amazing collection, but equally fabulous images from precursor Gemini missions are also featured, along with later photographs chronicling Space Shuttle missions and even the construction of the International Space Station.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780760366769
ISBN-10: 0760366764
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 250 color & b-w photos
Dimensiuni: 288 x 299 x 27 mm
Greutate: 1.61 kg
Editura: MOTORBOOKS INTL

Notă biografică

Piers Bizony is an experienced multimedia professional who has written about science and the history of technology for a wide variety of publishers worldwide, and has undertaken major projects for the media departments at NASA and ESA. He has also gained substantial experience within the film and television industries. The author of Quarto's Moonshots, The Art of NASA, NASA Space Shuttle: 40th Anniversary, and other titles, Bizony also worked closely with the family of Stanley Kubrick, in conjunction with Warner Bros. and fine art publishers Taschen, on a large-format book about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Cuprins

Introduction

1 This New Ocean
Origins of the Cold War Space Race

2 Apollo Ascending
A Trial by Fire for Humans and Machines

3 A Man on the Moon
The First Lunar Touchdown Missions

4 Making Tracks
Roving the Moon's Surface on Wheels

5 Living in Orbit
Permanently Inhabiting the Orbital Realm

Index
Credits