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Spaceshots & Snapshots of Projects Mercury & Gemini: A Rare Photographic History
John Bisney
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Description for Spaceshots & Snapshots of Projects Mercury & Gemini: A Rare Photographic History
Hardback. "A wonderful collection of rarely seen photographs that true space buffs will enjoy. The captions are worth their weight in space-fact gold."--Richard W. Orloff, coauthor of Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook Num Pages: 224 pages, 689 color plates. BIC Classification: AJC; TTDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 315 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1516.
The race to space between the United States and the Soviet Union captured the popular imagination. On April 12, 1961, the USSR launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on a one-orbit flight, making him the first human in space. Three weeks later, American astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. flew 116 miles above Earth before splashing down in the Bahamas. Over the next twenty years astronauts emerged as national heroes.
This book tells the story of the people and events of Projects Mercury and Gemini with hundreds of unpublished and rare photographs—both colour and black-and-white. Unlike other publications, which illustrate the space ... Read more
The race to space between the United States and the Soviet Union captured the popular imagination. On April 12, 1961, the USSR launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on a one-orbit flight, making him the first human in space. Three weeks later, American astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. flew 116 miles above Earth before splashing down in the Bahamas. Over the next twenty years astronauts emerged as national heroes.
This book tells the story of the people and events of Projects Mercury and Gemini with hundreds of unpublished and rare photographs—both colour and black-and-white. Unlike other publications, which illustrate the space ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
1564g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826352613
SKU
V9780826352613
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About John Bisney
John Bisney is a former correspondent who covered the space program for more than thirty years for CNN, the Discovery Channel, and SiriusXM Radio, among other news outlets. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. J. L. Pickering lives in Bloomington, Illinois, USA. He is a space-flight historian who has been archiving rare space images and historic artefacts for ... Read more
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