Als die NASA, die National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1958 ihren Betrieb aufnahm, war das auch ein Akt der Psychohygiene für eine geschockte und hysterisierte amerikanische Nation, über die seit einem Jahr piepend russische Sputniks hinwegzogen. Wenige Jahre später hatte sich das Häufchen von Rocketmen, Technikern und Testpiloten, die schon früh von PR-Profis Unterstützung erhielten, zu einem führenden Technologieunternehmen und einer Mythenfabrik gemausert. Astronauten wurden zu neuen Nationalhelden, und Programme wie Mercury, Gemini und schließlich Apollo fesselten Millionen, lenkten vom atomaren Wettrüsten und kriegerischen Konflikten wie in Vietnam ab und machten Cape Canaveral zu einer nationalen Pilgerstätte.
Die Mondlandung, das berühmte Bild der „Blauen Murmel“, das ein Bewusstsein für das „Raumschiff Erde“ weckte, die Shuttle-Flüge und zahllose Sondenmissionen durch das Sonnensystem und mit Voyager über seine Grenzen hinaus, aber auch Katastrophen wie der Verlust der Challenger- und Columbia-Mannschaften schrieben Technik-, Wissenschafts- und Mediengeschichte. Wer erinnert sich nicht an die Bilder von Armstrong und Aldrin auf dem Mond, von startenden und landenden Raumfähren, vom Aufbau der ISS-Weltraumstation, von Astronauten auf Außenmission, an die faszinierenden Ansichten des Universums, die das Hubble-Weltraumteleskop geliefert hat, oder an die Marspanoramen der Rover-Fahrzeuge? Heute verfolgen Millionen von Menschen weltweit die Arbeit der NASA über die sozialen Medien; allein das erste Foto von Pluto in hoher Auflösung brachte der NASA auf ihrem Facebook-Profil innerhalb eines Tages mehr als 320.000 Interaktionen und über 152.000 neue Follower ein.
Dieser kompakte Band basiert auf unserer XL-Ausgabe, die in Zusammenarbeit mit der NASA entstand, und zeichnet mit Hunderten von historischen Fotografien und seltenen Konzeptdarstellungen – unter Einsatz modernster Techniken neu abgetastet und überarbeitet – die Geschichte der National Aeronautics and Space Administration von den Anfängen bis den aktuellsten Missionen nach. Texte des Wissenschafts- und Technikjournalisten Piers Bizony, des ehemaligen NASA-Chefhistorikers Roger Launius und des Apollo-Historikers und Bestsellerautors Andrew Chaikin runden diese umfassende Darstellung ab.
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Piers Bizony hat für verschiedenste Verlage in Großbritannien und den USA Bücher und Texte über Naturwissenschaften und Technologiegeschichte verfasst. Eines seiner jüngeren Projekte, Atom, das an eine TV-Serie der BBC gekoppelt ist, erzählt die dramatische Geschichte der Rivalitäten und Leidenschaften hinter der Entdeckung der Quantenphysik. The Man Who Ran the Moon über Jim Webb, den Chefadministrator der NASA zu Zeiten der ersten Mondlandungen, wurde von der Kritik gefeiert, und Starman, eine packende Biografie über Juri Gagarin (mit Jamie Doran als Co-Autor), wird demnächst verfilmt. Bei seinem Text für The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s '2001: A Space Odyssey' handelt es sich um eine stark ausgeweitete und aktualisierte Version seines Bestsellers von 1994 2001: Filming the Future.
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Hardback. Zustand: New. On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA, had evolved from modest research teams experimenting with small converted rockets into one of the greatest technological and managerial enterprises ever known, capable of sending people to the Moon aboard gigantic rockets and of dispatching robot explorers to Venus, Mars, and worlds far beyond. In spite of occasional, tragic setbacks in NASA's history, the Apollo lunar landing project remains a byword for American ingenuity; the winged space shuttles spearheaded the International Space Station and a dazzling array of astronomical satellites and robotic landers, and Earth observation programs have transformed our understanding of the cosmos and our home world's fragile place within it. Throughout NASA's 60-year history, images have played a central role. Who today is not familiar with the Hubble Space Telescope's mesmerizing views of the universe or the pin-sharp panoramas of Mars from NASA's surface rovers? And who could forget the photographs of the first men walking on the Moon? This compact edition is derived from our XL edition, which was researched in collaboration with NASA, and gathers hundreds of historic photographs and rare concept renderings, scanned and remastered using the latest technology. Texts by science and technology journalist Piers Bizony, former NASA chief historian Roger Launius, and best-selling Apollo historian Andrew Chaikin round out this comprehensive exploration of NASA, from its earliest days to its current development of new space systems for the future. The NASA Archives is more than just a fascinating pictorial history of the U.S. space program. It is also a profound meditation on why we choose to explore space and how we will carry on this grandest of all adventures in the years to come. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9783836589284
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Hardback. Zustand: New. On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA, had evolved from modest research teams experimenting with small converted rockets into one of the greatest technological and managerial enterprises ever known, capable of sending people to the Moon aboard gigantic rockets and of dispatching robot explorers to Venus, Mars, and worlds far beyond. In spite of occasional, tragic setbacks in NASA's history, the Apollo lunar landing project remains a byword for American ingenuity; the winged space shuttles spearheaded the International Space Station and a dazzling array of astronomical satellites and robotic landers, and Earth observation programs have transformed our understanding of the cosmos and our home world's fragile place within it. Throughout NASA's 60-year history, images have played a central role. Who today is not familiar with the Hubble Space Telescope's mesmerizing views of the universe or the pin-sharp panoramas of Mars from NASA's surface rovers? And who could forget the photographs of the first men walking on the Moon? This compact edition is derived from our XL edition, which was researched in collaboration with NASA, and gathers hundreds of historic photographs and rare concept renderings, scanned and remastered using the latest technology. Texts by science and technology journalist Piers Bizony, former NASA chief historian Roger Launius, and best-selling Apollo historian Andrew Chaikin round out this comprehensive exploration of NASA, from its earliest days to its current development of new space systems for the future. The NASA Archives is more than just a fascinating pictorial history of the U.S. space program. It is also a profound meditation on why we choose to explore space and how we will carry on this grandest of all adventures in the years to come. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9783836589284
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Hardback. Zustand: New. On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA, had evolved from modest research teams experimenting with small converted rockets into one of the greatest technological and managerial enterprises ever known, capable of sending people to the Moon aboard gigantic rockets and of dispatching robot explorers to Venus, Mars, and worlds far beyond. In spite of occasional, tragic setbacks in NASA's history, the Apollo lunar landing project remains a byword for American ingenuity; the winged space shuttles spearheaded the International Space Station and a dazzling array of astronomical satellites and robotic landers, and Earth observation programs have transformed our understanding of the cosmos and our home world's fragile place within it. Throughout NASA's 60-year history, images have played a central role. Who today is not familiar with the Hubble Space Telescope's mesmerizing views of the universe or the pin-sharp panoramas of Mars from NASA's surface rovers? And who could forget the photographs of the first men walking on the Moon? This compact edition is derived from our XL edition, which was researched in collaboration with NASA, and gathers hundreds of historic photographs and rare concept renderings, scanned and remastered using the latest technology. Texts by science and technology journalist Piers Bizony, former NASA chief historian Roger Launius, and best-selling Apollo historian Andrew Chaikin round out this comprehensive exploration of NASA, from its earliest days to its current development of new space systems for the future. The NASA Archives is more than just a fascinating pictorial history of the U.S. space program. It is also a profound meditation on why we choose to explore space and how we will carry on this grandest of all adventures in the years to come. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9783836589284
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