The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions 9780760368077

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Автор: Bizony Piers
Название: The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions
Перевод названия: Пирс Бизони: Искусство NASA. Иллюстрации, которые продали полёты
ISBN: 9780760368077
Издательство: Quarto
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Популяризация науки

Аэрокосмические и авиационные транспортные средства и перевозки

Космическая наука

Космонавтика

ISBN-10: 0760368074
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 192
Вес: 1.85 кг.
Дата издания: 06.10.2020
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Color illustrations
Размер: 30.73 x 30.99 x 2.29 cm
Подзаголовок: The illustrations that sold the missions
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Formed in 1958, NASA has long maintained a department of visual artists to depict the concepts and technologies created in humankinds 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.

*A 2021 Locus Award Winner*

From space suits to capsules, from landing modules to the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, and more recent concepts for space planes, The Art of NASA presents 60 years of American space exploration in an unprecedented fashion. All the landmark early missions are represented in detail--Gemini, Mercury, Apollo--as are post-Space Race accomplishments, like the mission to Mars and other deep-space explorations.

The insightful text relates the wonderful stories associated with the art. For instance, the incredibly rare early Apollo illustrations show how Apollo might 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 huge the original plan was, but also what was retained.

Every picture in The Art of NASA tells a special story. This collection of the rarest of the rare is not only a unique view of NASA history--its 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.

The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions, Bizony Piers