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Go For Launch!: An Illustrated History of Cape Canaveral (Apogee Books Space Series)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 509
EAN: 9781894959438
ISBN: 1894959434
Label: Collector's Guide Publishing Inc
Manufacturer: Collector's Guide Publishing Inc
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: July 01, 2006
Publisher: Collector's Guide Publishing Inc
Studio: Collector's Guide Publishing Inc
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Editorial Review:
From the first Bumper V-2 launch in 1950 to the Atlas V vehicles of today, more than 55 years of Cape Canaveral history is captured in this exhaustive collection of photographs celebrating the development and evolution of one of space exploration's most famous and significant facilities. Detailed maps and historical aerial photographs reveal the famous launch complexes and basic infrastructure of this storied base station, while missile and rocket tests are featured in never-before-seen images with descriptive captions. The bustling daily activity of thousands of employees at the Cape is captured on film, providing a behind-the-scenes look at rocket launches. Information on the current generation of space launch vehicles, trivia on various rockets and satellites that have flown out of Cape Canaveral, and amusing anecdotes are also included.
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Rating: - America's Spaceport in Pictures
The history of space activities at Cape Canaveral, Florida, America's spaceport, is as interesting as it is varied. "Go for Launch!" seeks to tell this story--already available in both scholarly and popular as well as in illustrated and textual forms--with an emphasis on photographs. At a fundamental level the "Cape," as it is universally known by those in the space community, may be as much a state of mind as it is a physical place. With high technology enterprises resting side by side with a wetlands ... Read More
Rating: - Where the Cold War was Won
Space became the ultimate frontier and the battleground of the superpowers during the fifties. The fight was hard, but, happily, it was not won or lost by piling up heaps of dead bodies and dispatching hordes of mutilated veterans home from the fields of conflict, but by imaginative brainpower, engineering ingenuity and perseverance, and, of course, organizing all the fiscal and industrial resources available. Not everything happened at Cape Canaveral, but much of the drama happened there and therefrom. ... Read More
Rating: - This one Lifts off!!
I- like many of you have collected the photo books and histories of Cape Canaveral(or Cape Kennedy). When I first saw this title- I thought "not the same old photos again"
Boy- was I wrong!
This book is great. Joel Powell and Art LeBrun have created an excellent guide to the history of Kennedy Space center. From Bumper V-2 to Delta IV and Atlas V. It shows the early missiles like Bull Goose and even this years Pluto Express launch. There are 17 pages of photos from "incidents and ... Read More
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