Paper Astronauts

Paper Astronaut is a beautifully illustrated voyage into deep space, bringing together stunning archival photographs and colorfultechnical drawings with expertly designed die-cut models that readers can cut out and stick together. Devised and designed by the creator of Paper Pilot and Paper Captain, the book is the first to bring together the fascinating historyof space travel and the hands-on fun of model-making. The book includes concise histories of 24 feats of galactic engineeringdrawn from a half-century of space programs around the world, from NASA's legendary Apollo 11 to the Russian space stationMir, from Japanese shuttles to Chinese reconnaissance satellites and Virgin Galactic's passenger shuttle SpaceShipTwo. Drawing imagery from private collections as well as from international space program archives, the book features the most iconicimages of the most influential designs of fifty years of space exploration. Each spacecraft is accompanied by amazing stories, fascinating facts and statistics, and mesmerizing photographs of the vessels inspace. The last 64 pages of the book are devoted to finely detailed die-cut paper models of the featured rockets, each presentedwith clear instructions for assembly and helpful advice for deploying your galactic fleet, whether they're soaring into in the skiesor hanging from the ceiling.