posted 07-30-2007 10:34 AM               

From single-seat landers to rocket backpacks and lunar bulldozers, this study takes readers into the imagination of the world's top aerospace engineers by presenting NASA's lunar spacecraft research. A unique blend of history and imagination, this resource covers not only the actual exploration of the moon conducted during the Apollo program of the 1960s and 1970s, but also includes a presentation of dozens of spacecraft that were never built. Vivid, colorful renderings of the conceptual crafts — many of which are not available anywhere else — are also included, providing a visual progression of NASA's technological advancements.

• Paperback
  
• Publisher: Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc. (November 1, 2007)
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN-10: 1894959698
  
• ISBN-13: 978-1894959698

posted 11-27-2007 01:04 PM               

It does a nice job putting in place all the lunar surface vehicles like the BIS lunar lander, the LM and all the concept landing vehicles. Then it shows all the different lunar rover vehicles as well as spacesuits.

posted 01-21-2008 10:31 AM               

Last month NASA announced one key detail about the lunar lander that will be a key element in the agency's plans to return to the Moon: its name. Little else is known about Altair, as the lander is now known, other than it will be able to host four astronauts on the lunar surface for a week. Although NASA has published some conceptual illustrations of the spacecraft, the actual design of Altair won't be finalized until early next decade, assuming that the Vision for Space Exploration survives the change in presidential administrations next year in something resembling its current form. In the meantime, engineers at NASA and in industry will work on design studies and related work that will better define what Altair will look like. The question is, will they be as creative and inventive as their predecessors were nearly a half-century ago when they worked on the original push to the Moon, as so richly illustrated in the book The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook?