Coverage includes: the history of NASA, from its origins in the l950s as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Projects Mercury and Gemini; the history and timeline, triumphs and tragedies of the famed Apollo missions, including the historic Apollo 11, which put the first men on the Moon in l969; NASA's contributions to our everyday life, most notably on robotics and the creation of cutting-edge research on aerodynamics and chapters on important NASA discoveries: the Pioneer and Voyager Spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope, communications satellites such as the Echo, Telstar, and Syncom.
- ISBN10 0028642821
- ISBN13 9780028642826
- Publish Date 13 May 2002
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 28 October 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Dorling Kindersley Ltd
- Imprint Alpha
- Format Paperback
- Pages 360
- Language English