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NASA/art : 50 years of exploration

Title
NASA/art : 50 years of exploration / by James Dean and Bertram Ulrich ; foreword by Michael Collins ; preface by Tom D. Crouch ; afterword by Ray Bradbury.
Author
Dean, James D.
Publication
New York : Abrams : in association with NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, 2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Ulrich, Bertram.
  • Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service.
  • National Air and Space Museum.
  • United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Description
176 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color); 34 cm
Summary
NASA is special among agencies of the United States government in that its mission - to explore space - is to be constantly probing into the unknown. This book offers a selection and stands as a record of the impact of space exploration on the artistic imagination.
Subject
  • United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration > History > Exhibitions
  • United States > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > History > Pictorial works
  • United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Geschichte 1963-2007
  • Astronautics > United States > History > Exhibitions
  • Space vehicles in art > Exhibitions
  • Space ships in art > Exhibitions
  • Exploration of outer space
  • Astronautics
  • Space ships in art
  • Space vehicles in art
  • Fotografie
  • Malerei
  • Grafik
  • Raumfahrt
  • NASA PROGRAMS
  • HISTORIES
  • SPACE EXPLORATION
  • AEROSPACE VEHICLES
  • Outer space > Exploration > History > United States > Exhibitions
  • Outer space > In art > Exhibitions
  • Outer space
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • History.
Note
  • "Published in celebration of NASA's 50th anniversary and on the occasion of the exhibition NASA/art: 50 years of exploration, organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Blazing the trail: Mercury and Gemini -- On to the moon: Apollo and future moon missions -- Soaring to the skies and heavens: aeronautics and the shuttle era -- New worlds: exploration beyond our home planet.
ISBN
  • 9780810972872
  • 0810972875
LCCN
2008000981
OCLC
  • ocn190761296
  • 190761296
  • SCSB-1489504
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library