Jane's Space Recognition Guide (Jane's Recognition Guides) - Softcover

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Bond, Peter

 
9780061191336: Jane's Space Recognition Guide (Jane's Recognition Guides)

Inhaltsangabe

The essential, most comprehensive guide to spacecraft and space exploration includes:

  • Civilian and military spacecraft
  • Shuttles and satellites
  • Space agencies
  • Information on current and historic space missions
  • More than 400 color photographs

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Reseña del editor

Profiles a selection of more than 450 satellites, spacecraft, and rockets while providing detailed information on each craft's specifications and purposes, in a reference complemented by a fifty-year timeline of major events. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor

Peter Bond is a lifelong space and astronomy enthusiast. He has written eight books, including the award-winning DK Guide to Space and has contributed to or acted as consultant/editor for many others. Bond has also written hundreds of articles on space and astronomy for British and American newspapers and magazines. He was appointed as Space Science Advisor for the Royal Astronomical Society in 1995, and is also a consultant/writer for the European Space Agency. He received a certificate for an "outstanding contribution" from ESA in 2005, and a Group Achievement Award from NASA in 2004. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society. Bond lives in Cranleigh, Surrey, England.

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ISBN 10:  0007232969 ISBN 13:  9780007232963
Verlag: Collins-Janes, 2008
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