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In just 100 years, air and space exploration has progressed from a
12-second, 120-foot flight by two brothers to nearly 30 years of
sustained flight by a spacecraft, now eight billion miles from
Earth, traveling at almost 40,000 miles per hour.
Drawing on the extensive collection of the National Air and Space
Museum (NASM), and personal collections, this full-color,
beautifully illustrated book chronicles the most significant
accomplishments in aerospace history over the past 100 years. In
timeline fashion, you'll read brief excerpts from hundreds of news
articles reporting on significant accomplishments in flight.
Through brief introductory essays, you will learn what made each
decade of flight most significant. Concluding essays by John D.
Anderson Jr. and Roger D. Launius of the NASM look at what lies
ahead. Foreword by A. Scott Crossfield.
The book was commissioned in celebration of the 100th anniversary
of powered flight. Winter and van der Linden are both curators at
the NASM, and authors of several acclaimed books on air and space
history and the "Out of the Past" column published monthly in
Aerospace America. |
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| ISBN: 9781563475627 Frank H. Winter |
Hardback 2003 |
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