The Smithsonian Historical past of Area Exploration: From the Historic World to the Extraterrestrial Future
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The primary in-depth, absolutely illustrated historical past of worldwide house discovery and exploration from historic occasions to the fashionable period
“The Smithsonian Historical past of Area Exploration examines civilization’s continued need to discover the subsequent frontier as solely the Smithsonian can do it.” —Buzz Aldrin, Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 astronaut and creator of No Dream Is Too Excessive
Former NASA and Smithsonian house curator and historian Roger D. Launius presents a complete historical past of our endeavors to grasp the universe, honoring millennia of human curiosity, ingenuity, and achievement.
This in depth research of worldwide house exploration is filled with over 500 images, illustrations, graphics, and cutaways, plus loads of sidebars on key scientific and technological developments, influential figures, and pioneering spacecraft.
Beginning with house exploration’s origins within the pioneering work undertaken by historic civilizations and the nice discoveries of the Renaissance thinkers, Launius additionally devotes entire chapters to our house race to the Moon, house planes and orbital stations, and the lure of the pink planet Mars.
He additionally presents new insights into well-known moments such because the launch of Sputnik 1 and the Apollo Moon touchdown and explores the sudden occasions and hidden figures of house historical past.
The ultimate chapters cowl the technological and mechanical breakthroughs enabling people to discover far past our personal planet in latest a long time, speculating on the way forward for house exploration, together with house tourism and our potential future as an extraterrestrial species. This can be a must-read for house buffs and everybody intrigued by the historical past and way forward for scientific discovery.
“This oversize providing is an area nerd’s dream come true.” —Booklist
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The Smithsonian Historical past of Area Exploration
Writer : Smithsonian Books; Illustrated version (October 23, 2018)
Language : English
Hardcover : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 1588346374
ISBN-13 : 978-1588346377
Merchandise Weight : 4.05 kilos
Dimensions : 8.8 x 1.2 x 10.4 inches
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Debra –
I wish I was an astronaut
Fantastic book. A detailed history of Space Exploration beginning with the history of flight. The descriptions allowed me to visualize how it all began and how it continued to move forward through the years and into the future. The illustrations, concept art, and photography opened up a world of knowledge I did not possess. I really hope I can find more books of this caliper.
Peter M. –
Great and balanced history of space exploration.
An amazing coffee-table book that goes in depth telling the full history of space exploration, not leaving out the achievement of the Soviets and other pioneers. The print, photo quality and writing is top-notch with an unbeatable price. Just fantastic.
CaptainMaxwell7 –
Seems good.
My sister bought this. She didn’t complain about it.
John F. Steeves –
Received in good shape. Thanks!
The quality of the photos is, shall I say, “Out of the is world”! A thousand thanks!
Ivan’s Dad –
Could be a text book.
Best reading, detailed, a real cool diary of when the USA dreamed and reached for the stars.
Tanya McHenry –
Interesting Material For The Space Inclined
Okay, so I should start by saying that I am not a space exploration expert or really enthusiast. I am curious though. What this means is I don’t have a lot of books on space exploration, and I haven’t spent large amount of time looking at that kind of information. This review is from someone who is, well as I said, curious about it.
So let’s kind of start with what this book covers, very early theory kind of things, lie Greek BCE space models all the way through possible future exploration and challenges with future development. It’s very dry, very factual. It reminds me of kind of a textbook approach where it takes ideas like thee Space Lab, spy satellites (Corona Reconnaissance), and launch vehicles from Asia and just lays out what happened and key facts about the topic. These are not stories persay. They’re not meant to grip someone not already interested and while I am sure someone deep into the topic might feel perfectly adequate to some, I wish I had more incentive to read it from start to end. Instead I largely jumped around looking at specific topics like the the First Flight, Columbia, which I had a basic foundation of information for already. This made it an easy read. In that same section, there is a topic called out about New Astronauts where women, diversity and non-military personnel like engineers and scientists became astronauts. For sections like these I wish there was… well more.
So it took me a really long time to go through the book because it consist of several topics that didn’t draw me in and several that did but didn’t provide as much information as I wanted. The book promises the history of the space exploration, from ancient time and to the future, and largely it delivers on the promise, in brief snippets, and maybe it the ambition of that massive amount of time that it left me feeling wanting about topics I already had interest in, like Mining the Solar system.
Think of this is a way to touch on nearly every topic, an tiny introduction to each one because very few topics have more than one or two pages covering it which means if you really want to know who is wants to go mine those 2 to 3k mineral rich asteroids, for what, and what the challenges are.. you’ll need to find another book.
Finally, I’ll touch on the pictures. Yes, you can find a lot of these online, probably even bigger ones, but have them all in one place. There are so many of them that you really could just thumb through the pages and see iconic as well as pleasantly surprising ones, and each one has a caption that gives some key details, like one that is the Boeing made shuttle main engine you can find at, well one of the museums of course! There was also a basic schematic for one of the engines which I was not expecting, and the same thing for a voyager probe.
It won’t bee something I will ever browse again for casual reading, but for a space lover, this might be just thing they want to start with.
Kempers Paradise –
Great photos!
Fascinating book with a lot of exceptional photos!
SW –
Wonderful book for space program enthusiasts
Beautiful pictures and great book
STEPHE HUXTABLE. –
THIS AN AMAZING BOOK , THE HISTORY OF SPACE EXPLORATION
Rob Sedgwick –
This is an excellent book to browse through and read in full. There are some great pictures in it, which really make the physical hardback book worth getting. It covers early Earth-bound flight including balloons and aviation, before moving on to rockets and travel beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. It’s very comprehensive up to about Mars but I thought it skipped over the Jovian system and beyond really. Finally, it ends with prospects for the future, where things are starting to pick up again after relative inactivity for the last few decades.
Amazon Customer –
This is a fairly comprehensive volume on the subject of space exploration. It is well laid out and printed and bound to a high standard. It is a fairly heavy book – not quite coffee table but not ideal for reading in bed. Makes a lovely gift for anyone who has a passing interest in the subject.