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To Infinity and Beyond Journey through the U.S. space program's fascinating pictorial history 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...
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| Publisher Address: | Köln : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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To Infinity and Beyond Journey through the U.S. space program's fascinating pictorial history 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 everknown, capable of sending men to the moon. |
| Item Description: | "Excerpts featured throughout the book have been edited from the publications cited or from the Oral History Project conducted by the Johnson Space Center, which appear in this volume courtesy of NASA ... All NASA images courtesy of NASA unless otherwise noted below"--Colophon. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9783836569507 3836569507 |
| Order Number: | NASA |
| Index Number: | TL521 |
| CLC: | V4-097.12 |
| Call Number: | V4-097.12/N277 |
| Contents: |
For all humankind -- The rocket's red glare -- This new ocean -- Islands in the sky -- Pale blue dot -- The final frontier. The greatest exploration / Higher, faster / Red star rising / Spam in a can -- The decision -- Gemini twins -- Chariots for Apollo -- Men on the moon -- Apollo's finale -- The workhorse of space -- Inhabiting orbit -- The Sun's closest children -- Red planet Mars -- The outer planets -- Worlds beyond -- Magnificent desolation / NASA mission checklist. |