posted 09-01-2008 11:48 AM               

Hello Mr. Brown,

I'm contacting you in connection with your picture "Endeavour to Orbit" which I saw on NASA's March 16 Astronomy Picture of the Day site.

I'm interested in using your picture in a special issue on space, which will appear this fall.

Please let me know if you will give permission for use.

Thank you and best regards,

Bill Douthitt
Senior Editor
National Geographic Magazine

posted 09-01-2008 01:00 PM               

That's quite an honor! Will you be autographing copies for us?

posted 10-21-2008 12:15 AM               

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Originally posted by James Brown:
I got word that the special issue NG is doing on Space will be on sale Nov. 3.

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posted 10-21-2008 11:43 PM               

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Originally posted by James Brown:
It's a seperate special issue on Space Exploration.

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posted 10-30-2008 02:03 PM               

My photo, although small, looks nice. It's on the very first page, the contents page, at the bottom.

posted 11-01-2008 12:27 AM               

Geeeeeeeee....

Chris.

posted 11-03-2008 02:35 PM               

Go buy it - guys!

posted 11-06-2008 08:02 PM               

Newsstand-Only Special Issue of National Geographic Looks at History and Future of Space Exploration

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Fifty years of space exploration are spotlighted in a special collector's edition of National Geographic magazine. "Space: The Once and Future Frontier" ($10.99), available only on newsstands until Jan. 26, 2009, spans a half-century of space discoveries, from the 1957 Russian Sputnik satellite launch to the New Horizons mission to Pluto currently under way.

Punctuated by stunning images of space and the people who probe its mysteries, the issue offers an in-depth look at topics ranging from the danger of landing on the moon and returning to Earth to future space experiments that explore lingering questions about the universe.

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• Writer Ray Bradbury's foreword, in which he looks at fiction's romantic expectations of Mars compared with actual scientific findings from the planet.
  
• Joel Achenbach's remembrance of international heroes who ventured into space, including Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
  
• Michael Lemonick's timeline of the flybys, landings and probes of Earth's surrounding planets, including their moons, and some asteroids.
  
• Robert Irion's look at the next wave of scientific discovery, which will explore how planets and solar systems form, what materials hold the planets in their cosmic web and how the universe expands.

Also included in the special edition is a chart of space missions, from 1961 to future planned missions, with descriptions of the spacecraft involved; an illustrated graph with facts about the planets, their orbits and unique characteristics; a pull-out poster on space exploration, showing each country's space initiative and the flight path of each spacecraft; and a graphic showing which extrasolar planets have the greatest chance of sustaining life, depending on their distance from a star.

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