Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1432094 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

One of the best Space Program books
I have a collection of space books from DK's the Universe, Illustrated History of NASA, Atlas of the Universe, Apollo and now Space Flight. This book has a great many pictures of the historical figures from the space program as well as cutaways of rockets and spacecraft and of course space. In my opinion if you already own DK's universe. Get this book even though Universe has the space program in that book. This has more detail.

An Outstanding Mini-Encyclopedia on Space Travel
In common with many other books on this subject, this one has many photos and descriptions of the major milestones in manned flight. It starts with early experiments with rockets, then Sputnik, Laika, and Gagarin, then the 1960's "space race" to the moon, which the US won, then Skylab, then the historic 1975 joint US-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz flight, then the Shuttle, etc. Each major milestone is described in a two-page facing format.

This book differs from most other books on this subject in two obvious ways. For one thing, it devotes a balance of attention to the American and Soviet space programs. Also, it provides many cutout drawings that help the reader understand technical details on the operation of rockets, spacecraft, and their components (for example, the Lunar Module, which ferried US astronauts from the lunar orbit to the lunar surface and back to lunar orbit).

A great encyclopedia of space
A wonderful overview of the space program. The pictures are oversized and well presented. Good for the entire family or space enthusiast. I especially enjoyed the pages with diagrams that are packed with great information.

-Tahir Rahman, author of We Came in Peace for all Mankind: the untold story of the Apollo 11 silicon disc