Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo: A Rare Photographic History
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (939 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826355943 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent Photos & Very Informative 2nd Volume This book, along with it’s preceding companion volume - Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare Photographic History - is fabulous!The texts of each chapter are concise yet very comprehensive with the main focus being on the photographs as the title suggests. The photos are really excellent selections and help convey a great s. Great photos and captions Before buying this book I thought the photos would be the standard fare that I had seen in other books or on line. I was mistaken. The authors have done a great job of mining obscure sources and using shots of thugs we haven't seen before or finding vantage points previously unseen. The captions are the true icing on the cake, pointing out details that a c. "An excellent book" according to electronic shopper. This is a nice book if you are looking for some hard to find photos astronauts and some of the people that worked on the Apollo program. The photos are gorgeous on thick glossy paper.It's a must have book for people that need to know more about the Apollo program with excellent photos.
The authors again draw from rarely seen NASA, industry, and news media images, taking readers to the Moon, on months-long odysseys above Earth, and finally on the first international manned space flight in 1975.The book pairs many previously unpublished images from Pickering's unmatched collection of Cold War-era space photographs with extended captions--identifying many NASA, military, and contract workers and participants for the first time--to provide comprehensive background information about the exciting climax and conclusion of the Space Race.. In this companion volume to their extraordinary book of rare photographs from the Mercury and Gemini missions, John Bisney and J. L. Pickering present the rest of the Golden Age of US manned space flight with a photographic history of Project Apollo.Beginning in 1967, Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo chronicles the program's twelve missions and its two follow-ons, Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Pickering and John Bisney have done it again! Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo comes with SpaceFlight Insider’s highest recommendation. Pickering have assembled a wonderful collection of rarely seen photographs that true space buffs will enjoy. Pickering and John Bisney have combed the archives of photojournalists who covered the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab missions to create an extraordinary visual record that will delight and surprise even the most hard-core space enthusiast.”—Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts. “These ‘Moonshots and Snapshots’ provide a new perspective on NASA’s Project Apollo. L. It is an excellent follow-on to Spaceshots and Snapshots of Proj