America in space : NASA's first fifty years / foreword by Neil Armstrong ; edited by Steven J. Dick...
America in space : NASA's first fifty years / foreword by Neil Armstrong ; edited by Steven J. Dick...
America in space : NASA's first fifty years / foreword by Neil Armstrong ; edited by Steven J. Dick ... [et al.] ; with the assistance of the NASA Chief Historian's Office and the NASA Photo Departments.
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New York : Abrams, 2007.
Date
2007.
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NF629.40973/ 1
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
1. In the beginning -- 2. The first "A" in NASA -- 3. One small step -- Project Mercury -- Project Gemini -- Project Apollo -- Space Shuttle -- 4. Voyages in space and time.
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Publisher
New York : Abrams, 2007.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2007.
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"The story of America's Space Age is told with more than 400 carefully selected photographs. It begins in the 1950s with intrepid test pilots venturing ever faster and higher, and opens out into the now-legendary Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions of the 1960s, which made astronauts into national heroes. The Space Shuttle era shows us what everyd...
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America in space : NASA's first fifty years / foreword by Neil Armstrong ; edited by Steven J. Dick ... [et al.] ; with the assistance of the NASA Chief Historian's Office and the NASA Photo Departments.
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Includes index.
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NF629.40973/ 1
Record Identifier
74VKzkReVM5A
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzkReVM5A
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ISBN
0810993732 (hardcover)
9780810993730 (hardcover)
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629.40973
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991023542879702626
