Space travel has gone from fantasy to reality in just fifty yearswhere will we be fifty years from now? This breathtaking book follows our projections for space exploration in the 1950s to our actual accomplishments today and goes on to predict the spacecraft, commerce, ecology, and manned explorations yet to come in the next 50 years. Lavishly illustrated, with a visionary foreword by Ray Bradbury as well as an adventurous text by NASA's chief historian and an expert on the U.S. space program, Imagining Space will inspire science fiction enthusiasts, pop culture fans, and anyone who has ever looked up at the stars in wonder.

Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities: 1950-2050

Science & Math

Launius, Roger

McCurdy, Howard

Astronomy & Space Science

Chronicle Books+

The Eclipse Project

Tucker, Tom

BiblioGov

Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes 1958-2000

Politics & Social Sciences

Siddiqi, Asif A.

Politics & Government

The C-5 Galaxy is truly an effective military aircraft. It remains an essential, successful component of the U.S. military airlife capability. This book reveals the events that led to the C-5 requirement; and the controversies of its early operational existence. Details of testing, flight characteristics, operational accomplishments and world flight records are presented. Interviews from senior Lockheed management and experienced flight crews validate the C-5's decisive accomplishments.

The C-5 Galaxy History: Crushing Setbacks, Decisive Achievements

History

Dvorscak, B.J.

Military

Turner

NASA Chief Historian Dr. Roger D. Launius highlights several of the many achievements -- and a few of the disastrous failures -- of the space program developed by NASA and sets excerpts from government documents and scientific reports within the context of American society at the time of each new program and launch. Documents and photographs take us from the early unmanned launches to key Kennedy and Nixon decisions, lunar landings, the Challenger accident, the ""Apollo 13"" movie, and to the Mars Pathfinder mission. Launius also introduces the ""Quest for Extraterrestrial Intelligence"" in an article by Carl Sagan.

The U.S. Space Program and American Society (Perspectives on History Series)

History Compass

The C-5 Galaxy is truly an effective military aircraft. It remains an essential, successful component of the U.S. military airlife capability. This book reveals the events that led to the C-5 requirement; and the controversies of its early operational existence. Details of testing, flight characteristics, operational accomplishments and world flight records are presented. Interviews from senior Lockheed management and experienced flight crews validate the C-5's decisive accomplishments.

Les Archives de la NASA. 60 ans dans l'espace (French and English Edition)

Arts & Photography

Bizony, Piers

Chaikin, Andrew

Photography & Video

Taschen

Das NASA Archiv. 60 Jahre im All

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

Taschen Deutschland GmbH+

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