Futures: 50 Years in Space: The Challenge of the Stars

by Patrick Moore, David A. Hardy, Dashka Slater

Book Overview

It was in 1954, shortly after their first collaboration, that astronomer Patrick Moore and illustrator David A. Hardy first agreed to undertake an illustrated book to show how humans would expand into space via orbiting space stations, moon-landings, voyages to the planets and stars.By the time such a project could become a reality, though, men had walked on the moon for the first and last time and space exploration had revealed discoveries wondrous,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060730382
• ISBN13: 9780060730383
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 12.0"