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Title: Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities: 1950-2050 by Roger D. Launius, Howard E. McCurdy, Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0-8118-3115-9 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: August, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities: 1950-2050
Comment: Not a simple chronology of space exploration, this volume looks at why humans want to go and what they want to do when they get there. Life on Mars, extraterrestrial life, space warfare, and space colonization are among the ideas whose histories are explored. The stories of the people who developed the technology to go to space, their ideas, theories, and inventions are related, with many color illustrations. Launius is a historian and editor; McCurdy teaches public affairs at the American U. in Washington DC.
Rating: 5
Summary: With stunningly beautiful illustrations
Comment: With a special foreword by famed science fiction author Ray Bradbury, Imagining Space: Achievements, Predications, Possibilities 1950-2050 is an amazing, informative, thought-provoking, and superbly illustrated armchair traveler's guide - one that takes the reader to other planets, past the solar system, and beyond the Milky Way galaxy. It looks back to the 1950 predictions of rocket scientists and science fiction authors, to the present day space program, and forward to the possibilities of 2050. Chief NASA historian Roger D. Launius and Dr. Howard E. McCurdy of American University explore the dreams and realities of our past and future as connected to space travel, including speculations of one day exploring Mars and creating space colonies. Imagining Space is written in lay terminology so that its dreams can easily be imparted to the casual reader, but by far its most vivid asset are its stunningly beautiful illustrations; over 150 artists' renderings and photographs display a breathtaking, unforgettable glimpse into the past, present, and future of space travel. Very highly recommended for non-specialist general readers with an interest in the future beyond the boundaries of the Earth.
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Title: Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future by Joseph J. Corn, Brian Horrigan, Katherine Chambers ISBN: 0801853990 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Space and the American Imagination (Smithsonian History of Aviation Series) by Howard E. McCurdy ISBN: 1560984457 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future by Norman Brosterman ISBN: 0810929392 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Dream Machines: An Illustrated History of the Spaceship in Art, Science and Literature by Ron Miller ISBN: 0894640399 Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $62.50 |
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Title: Creating Space: The Story of the Space Age Through Models (Apogee Books Space Series) by Mat Irvine, Arthur Charles Clarke ISBN: 1896522866 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
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