The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook: A Pictorial History of Lunar Vehicles (Apogee Books Space Series) - Softcover

Godwin, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1894959698 ISBN 13: 9781894959698

Verlag: Apogee Books, 2007

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In The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook, Godwin combines modern computer graphics with old blueprints to create a full color history of the golden era of lunar exploration.

Included in this remarkable book are over 80 different Lunar landers, over 80 lunar rovers and mobile laboratories (MOLAB), more than 50 lunar flying vehicles as well as sections on the Saturn and Nova rockets, lunar space suits, Command & Service module variants, LM laboratories and orbiters, training vehicles, lunar walkers and lunar shelters.

Altogether over 750 color pictures of designs for lunar exploration vehicles, all from NASA, Boeing, Lockheed, Grumman, USAF, US Army, GE, Chrysler, North American Rockwell, Bell Aerospace, Martin, Bendix and more.

No science fiction!

From single-seat landers to rocket backpacks and lunar bulldozers, this study takes readers into the imagination of the world’s top aerospace engineers by presenting NASA’s lunar spacecraft research. A unique blend of history and imagination, this resource covers not only the actual exploration of the moon conducted during the Apollo program of the 1960s and 1970s, but also includes a presentation of dozens of spacecraft that were never built. Vivid, colorful renderings of the conceptual craftsmany of which are not available anywhere elseare also included, providing a visual progression of NASA’s technological advancements.

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Robert Godwin is the founder of Collector's Guide Publishing, the editor of the NASA Mission Reports series, and the author ofThe Illustrated Collector's Guide to Led Zeppelin and The Making of Led Zeppelin'sIV. He lives in Burlington, Ontario.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Apogee Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1894959698
• ISBN 13: 9781894959698
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 221
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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