The Penguin book of outer space exploration
Subtitle: NASA and the incredible story of human spaceflight
By: edited by John Logsdon ; foreword by Bill Nye
Series: Penguin classics; Penguin classics
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780143129950
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: United States; Manned space flight; Exploration; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; History
Other titles: Outer space exploration; NASA and the incredible story of human spaceflight
Description: "Using items in the NASA archive together with expert narrative guidance, this history of how Americans got to space begins with Wernher von Braun's vision for voyaging to Mars and ends with Elon Musk's contemporary plan to get there. It covers the founding of NASA, the first American astronauts in space, the moon landings, the Challenger disaster, and the Hubble Telescope repairs"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : The dream of centuries; title: Getting ready for space exploration; title: First steps; title: "One small step... one giant leap"; title: Steps toward an uncertain future; title: Epilogue : The dream persists.