The Complete Book of Spacecraft (eBook)

Rockets, Shuttles, Satellites, and Space Stations

Michael H. Gorn, Davide Sivolella (Autoren)

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2025 | Enlarged Edition
256 Seiten
Motorbooks (Verlag)
978-0-7603-9508-0 (ISBN)

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Marvel at the history of space exploration through its daring vehicles, exhaustively chronicled in this authoritative volume featuring more than 250 artworks.In 1957, the world looked on with both uncertainty and amazement as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first man-made orbiter. Sputnik 1 would spend three months circling Earth every 98 minutes and cover 71 million miles in the process. The world's space programs have traveled far (literally and figuratively) since then, and the spacecraft they have developed and deployed represent almost unthinkable advances for such a relatively short period.In Spacecraft, illustrator and aerospace professional Giuseppe De Chiara teams up with aerospace historian Michael Gorn to present a huge, profusely illustrated aerospace history profiling and depicting spacecraft from Sputnik 1 through the International Space Station and everything in between, including concepts that have yet to actually venture outside the Earth's atmosphere.This updated and revised edition includes:Expertly written profiles depicting and describing the design, development, and deployment of manned and unmanned spacecraft from around the world, including satellites, capsules, spaceplanes, rockets, and space stationsnow updated with the latest modelsVivid scale illustrations of the many international spacecraft in multiple-view, sometimes cross-section, and in many cases shown in archival period photography to provide further historical contextEarthbound and spaceborne data and intelchronicling every technological leap, engineering challenge, and monumental achievement, from troubleshooting the lunar landers of the '60s to engineering solar-driven sails to propel futuristic craft to Mars and beyondA look ahead to an era of privatized space travel and even plans for lunar and Martian space stations and settlementDividing the book by era, De Chiara and Gorn feature spacecraft not only from the United States and Soviet Union/Russia, but also from the European Space Agency and China. The mind-blowing machines examined in this volume include the rocketsEnergia, Falcon 9, and VEGA; the Hubble Space Telescope; the Cassini space probe; and the Mars rovers, Opportunity, and Curiosity.For anyone who has marveled at humankind's attempts and advances in leaving Earth, Spacecraft: The Complete Guide to the Rockets, Satellites, Capsules, Shuttles, and Stations That Put Us in Space is the definitive reference.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.8.2025
• Illustrationen: Giuseppe de Chiara
• Zusatzinfo: 250 color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
• Schlagworte: 1957 • 50th anniversary moon landing • Aerospace • agena • Aircraft • ALA summer Reading • Apollo • Apollo 50 years • Ariane 4 • Artemis • aspiring astronaut • Atlantis • Buzz Aldrin • Capsules • Cassini • Centaur • Chandrayaan 3 • Christmas • coffee table • Collaborative Summer Library Program • Columbia • Cosmos • CSLP • Curiosity • Cygnus • CZ family • dos 7 • Dream Chaser • Energia • Enterprise • Enthusiast • equipment • Explorer • force • Gagarin • Gemini • gemini-titan • Gift • giftable • Hanukkah • Heavy launchers • History • Holiday • Hubble space telescope • Illustrated • images • Ingenuity • International Space Station • ISS • James Webb Space Telescope • John Glenn • JWST • Lander • landers • Lunar Orbiter • luna ye- • Lunokhod • man on moon • mariner 10 • Mars • Mengzhou • Mercury • Mercury-Atlas • MiG 105 • MIR • Nasa • Neil Armstrong • Opportunity • Orbiter • Perseverance • photography • Pioneer 10 • Planets • present • Progress • ranger 7 • Redstone • Robotics • rockets • rovers • Russian space program • rutan • Salyut • Saturn • saturn rocket • Secret Santa • Sever • Shepherd • Skylab • Soyuz A 7K • Space Age • space exploration book • Spaceplanes • space probe • space station • SpaceX • Sputnik • Sputnik 1 • Starliner • stocking stuffer • surveyor 1 • Technology • Universe of Stories • ur-500 proton • Vehicles • Venera • viking 2 • Viking ricket • VKK Buran • Vostok • Voyager 2 • Vulcan • white elephant • X-15 • yankee swap
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-9508-X / 076039508X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-9508-0 / 9780760395080