Binding: Hardcover
Description: Formed in 1958, NAS a 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 NAS a archives the 200 artworks presented in this large - format edition provide a glimpse of NAS a 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 NAS a 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 NAS a 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 NAS a tells a special story. This collection of the rarest of the rare is not only a unique view of NAS a history 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.
Title: The Art Of Nasa The Illustrations That Sold The Missions
Author(s): Bizony Piers
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780760368077
Pages: 192 Pages, Color Illustrations
Publication Date: 10/6/2020
Category: Astronautics