📗 Libro en inglés THE COMPLETE BOOK OF SPACECRAFT

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 stations now updated with the latest mo