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onesmallstep
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posted 04-29-2011 05:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for onesmallstep   Click Here to Email onesmallstep     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Another special commemorative magazine, published by an aviation press, Key Publishing Limited, in the UK.
On the 50th anniversary of the flight that changed history, Key Publishing brings you the complete story of humankind's incredible efforts to break the bonds of Earth. Set over 132 high-quality pages, Space is a story of triumph, disaster, heroism, invention, and sheer, unbridled determination.

Features include:

  • The Learning Years
    Rocket powered research aircraft developed at the end of the Second World War pave the way for hypersonic and manned space flight.

  • Apollo gets Ready
    Mobilising a vast industrial machine, NASA brings together giant booster rockets and complex spacecraft ready for the moon missions

  • Moonwalk USA
    Apollo finally gets off the ground and achieves the first landing within the decade, the goal set by Kennedy eight years earlier.

  • Back to the Future
    Dreams of going to Mars, flights to the asteroids and privatised space flight give us a glimpse of the next 50 years of humans in space.
To save mailing costs, I may ask my sister who will be going 'across the pond' next month to buy it and the Sky at Night special issue too.

onesmallstep
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posted 05-03-2011 02:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for onesmallstep   Click Here to Email onesmallstep     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Copies of this publication were found in the Science/Astronomy magazine section at Barnes & Noble.

GoesTo11
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posted 05-06-2011 09:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GoesTo11   Click Here to Email GoesTo11     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I picked up a couple copies of this "bookazine" at B&N today, and I highly recommend it.

Not mentioned on Key Publishing's page is that this publication was written and edited by none other than Dr. David Baker, with whose outstanding scholarship in the field so many of us are familiar. It's well-organized, beautifully presented, and uncommonly balanced: While the pioneering exploits of Gagarin, Leonov, the Mercury astronauts and of course Apollo are given appropriate weight, the usually-an-afterthought Skylab (as one example) is accorded nine pages of sharp coverage. The parallel-running Soviet space effort is also given as much attention as this necessarily concise format will allow.

Great value at US$12.50. Don't miss this one.

astro-nut
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posted 05-15-2011 12:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for astro-nut   Click Here to Email astro-nut     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I, too, have picked up a copy of this. A very nice item indeed. Thank you collectSPACE for posting about this collector's item.

cspg
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posted 05-16-2011 12:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ordered mine. It's on its way. Thanks to "onesmallstep" for bringing this publication to our attention!

onesmallstep
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posted 05-17-2011 07:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for onesmallstep   Click Here to Email onesmallstep     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
..You're welcome!

astro-nut
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posted 05-21-2011 09:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for astro-nut   Click Here to Email astro-nut     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks also to onesmallstep!!! Thank you.

dbaker
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posted 06-02-2011 03:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for dbaker   Click Here to Email dbaker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Gentlemen, thanks for your generous comments on my recent publication. Very pleased it seems to have been well received. Feedback is always a welcome but please be critical - that way we get to improve and to deliver the product people really want. It's the reader that keeps us sharp!

cspg
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posted 06-02-2011 10:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is a neat publication!

canyon42
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posted 07-26-2011 10:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for canyon42   Click Here to Email canyon42     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Most of the way through this publication after picking it up a month or so ago. Nicely laid out with a very good selection of photos. Only quibbles would be a fairly high number of typos and other editing issues, along with several outright mistakes (two examples: both the text and a photo caption state that Conrad and Bean flew on Gemini 11; and that the number of women cited as flown astronauts does not include Judy Resnik, "who died shortly after launch aboard Challenger on January 28, 1986, and never made it all the way into orbit"--which of course she did on 41D).

Overall a good publication, but a tighter proofreading job would have helped.

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