The NASA Archives. 40th Ed.

by Piers Bizony, Roger Launius, Andrew Chaikin

On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA, had evolved from modest research teams experimenting with small converted rockets into one of the greatest technological and managerial enterprises ever known, capable of sending...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3836588080
• ISBN13: 9783836588089
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 8.8"