NASA/ART 50 Years of Exploration

by Dean, James; Ulrich, Bertram; Crouch, Tom; Collins, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780810972872
• ISBN10: 0810972875
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

"Published in celebration of the space agency's fiftieth anniversary, NASA/Art: 50 Years of Exploration presents an expanded selection of the works created for the NASA Art Program, which was established in 1963 to document the history of the agency." "Essays by astronaut Michael Collins, curator Tom D. Crouch, and novelist Ray Bradbury frame nearly 150 paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures chosen from the archives of NASA and the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. NASA/Art stands as a lasting record of the impact of space exploration on the artistic imagination."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

James Dean was the founder of the NASA Art Program and its director from 1962 to 1974. Bertram Ulrich is Curator and Multimedia Manager at NASA and co-author of Abrams’ America in Space: NASA’s First Fifty Years. Thomas Crouch is Senior Curator of Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum. Michael Collins was Command Module Pilot on Apollo 11 and the director of the National Air and Space Museum. Ray Bradbury is the author of more than 500 novels, short stories, plays, and volumes of verse.

Table of Contents

The Next Step	p. 6
Preface	p. 7
Introduction	p. 8
Blazing the Trail: Mercury and Gemini	p. 14
On to the Moon: Apollo and Future Moon Missions	p. 38
Soaring to the Skies and Heavens: Aeronautics and the Shuttle Era	p. 88
New Worlds: Exploration Beyond Our Home Planet	p. 152
Witness and Celebrate NASA's Future	p. 174
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