Eyewitness Accounts of NASA and the Age of Space
This book combines inspiring imagery and personal storytelling to recount the emotional drama of major space events played out on the ground and in orbit throughout NASA's forty-year history. It examines US spaceflight achievements and technological discoveries, salutes those who made great things happen, and explores the impact the agency and its activities have had on the lives of individuals and the world community.
Thematic chapters represent entire space programmes such as manned spaceflight, deep space and planetary probes, Mars exploration, the International Space Station and earth satellite technology. The book also includes eyewitness experiences: a collection of related stories that cover dramatic and defining moments in space history. Relive decades of NASA's past, present and future, from Freedom 7, American's first dramatic human spaceflight, to the world's most memorable shuttle missions to the recent discoveries made by Mars Global Surveyor and the Hubble Space Telescope.
