NASA and the Exploration of Space: With Works from the NASA Art Collection

by Roger D. Launius

Book Overview

A collection of images and an accompanying text chronicling the history of the United States space programme. The art work was commissioned by NASA from 1963, and illustrates every aspect of space... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556706960
• ISBN13: 9781556706967
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.5" x 12.3"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Arrangement and Selection of Artwork

Mr. Bertram Ulrich demonstrates rare talent in picking out selections from NASA's art collection that are emblematic of different period's of the Agency's history.

An exquisitely illustrated history of the space program.

Mary Kalamaras was the in-house STC editor not the author. Please correct. I wanted, when planning the publication of this book, to publish an exciting and riveting history of the space program. I wanted to illustrate it with the extraordinary art collection that NASA has been building from its inception, inviting artists from Robert Rauschenberg to Norman Rockwell to attend its launches and observe and document its work. This published work is my dream come true. Brilliantly written and finally designed by Nai Chang, and superbly printed, it is everything a gift book is supposed to be: a great story informed by extraordinary images... in this case one of the most absorbing stories of the twentieth century. Lena Tabori, until August 1,1998, Publisher/President of Stewart, Tabori & Chang.