The Art of NASA - by Piers Bizony (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Formed in 1958, NASA has long maintained a department of visual artists to depict the concepts and technologies created in humankind's quest to explore the final frontier. Culled from a carefully chosen reserve of approximately 3,000 files deep in the NASA archives, the 200 artworks presented in this large-format edition provide a glimpse of NASA history like no other. </b> <p/> From space suits to capsules, from landing modules to the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, and more recent concepts for space planes, <i>The Art of NASA</i> presents <b>60 years of American space exploration </b>in an unprecedented fashion. All the landmark early missions are represented in detail--<b>Gemini, Mercury, Apollo</b>--as are post-Space Race accomplishments, like the <b>mission to Mars </b>and other deep-space explorations. <p/> The insightful text relates the <b>wonderful stories associated with the art</b>. For instance, the incredibly rare early Apollo illustrations show how Apollo <i>might</i> have looked if the landing module had never been developed. Black-and-white Gemini drawings illustrate how the massive NASA art department did its stuff with ink pen and rubdown Letraset textures. Cross-sections of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking adapter reveal Russian sensitivity about US "male" probes "penetrating" their spacecraft, thus the androgynous "adapter" now used universally in space. International Space Station cutaways show how <i>huge</i> the original plan was, but also what was retained. <p/> Every picture in <i>The Art of NASA</i> tells a special story. This collection of the rarest of the rare is not only <b>a unique view of NASA history</b>--it's a fascinating look at the art of illustration, the development of now-familiar technologies, and a glimpse of what the space program might have looked like.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Piers Bizony</b> is the author of <i>The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA's First Space Plane</i> and <i>One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered</i>, both from Zenith Press. He has written about science, aerospace, and cosmology for a wide variety of magazines in the United Kingdom and the United States. His previous books include <i>2001: Filming the Future</i>, <i>The Rivers of Mars</i>, <i>Starman </i>(a biography of Yuri Gagarin), and <i>Space: 50</i>, marking the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik.</p>
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