America In Space: NASA's First Fifty Years
by Steven Dick, Robert Jacobs, Constance Moore, Bertram Ulrich
Book Summary Information
Author: Bertram Ulrich, Constance Moore, Robert Jacobs, Steven DickEditor: Neil Armstrong
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-01
ISBN: 0810993732
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Abrams Books
Book Reviews of America In Space: NASA's First Fifty Years
Book Review: Slightly disappointed
Summary: 2 Stars
I purchased this book with a gift token I received from a friend. I was hoping for a "definitive" pictorial account of Nasa's first fifty years in space. It does have a comprehensive collection of images with many full page colour reproductions of original material.
BUT
Far too many of the pictures are of NASA personnel, Astronauts, engineers flight controllers etc. After a while one lantern jawed,crew cut guy in a flight suit looks like any other! If you are looking for a NASA "family album" then fine but to my taste there's simply too many pretty mundane portrait type pictures at the expense of "the bigger picture" of space exploration. For that reason I cannot recommend its purchase since there are better books out there on the subject.
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