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50 Years in Space

50 Years in Space

What We Thought Then... What We Know Now

by Patrick Moore and David A. Hardy
Paperback
Publication Date: 28/10/2006

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Patrick Moore, one of the world's best-known astronomers and host of the BBC's record-breaking series "The Sky at Night," joins forces with celebrated "space artist" David Hardy in a lavishly illustrated look at our evolving images of space. Looking back to their 1972 classic, "Challenge of the Stars," Moore and Hardy show how early space art sometimes proved amazingly prophetic--incorporating ideas about spacecraft and space stations that would later come true. They also show how some of the spectacular fantasies of the '70s gave way to realities more fantastic still, such as the canyons of Mars, the geysers on Triton, neutron stars, and black holes.
ISBN:
9781904332602
9781904332602
Category:
Astronomy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-10-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
AAPPL Artists & Photographers Press Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
311.15x228.6x9.4mm
Weight:
0.63kg
Patrick Moore

Sir Patrick Moore is best remembered as the presenter of the world's longest running television programme - BBC TV'sThe Sky at Night - which was first broadcast in 1957. He is the author of more than 80 books, and has played a unique role in astronomy education and popularizing science through six decades. He was knighted in 2001, the same year he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2002 Buzz Aldrin presented him with a BAFTA award for services to television. He passed in 2012 and the Science Museum acquired a large collection of his objects and papers.

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