The Geek's Guide to Space

These are the ultimate spacecraft "user manuals" for all space geeks and gearheads. Each volume includes more than 300 mostly color images and technical illustrations that invite the space enthusiast in to the inner workings of spacecraft like the Mars Rover, the Lunar Lander, the ISS, and the Apollo and Gemini rockets and capsules. Privileged insider tours of the machinery, mechanics, and manufacture of these awe-inspiring feats of technological innovation are complemented,...
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These are the ultimate spacecraft "user manuals" for all space geeks and gearheads. Each volume includes more than 300 mostly color images and technical illustrations that invite the space enthusiast in to the inner workings of spacecraft like the Mars Rover, the Lunar Lander, the ISS, and the Apollo and Gemini rockets and capsules. Privileged insider tours of the machinery, mechanics, and manufacture of these awe-inspiring feats of technological innovation are complemented, contextualized, and enhanced by authoritative text that provides a full and extensive description of humankind's greatest engineering achievements of the Space Age. Filled with technical drawings, spec sheets, capsule profiles of important engineers and astronauts, and mind-blowing space photography, this series is a treasure trove for anyone interested in the history, science, and engineering of manned spaceflight and exploration.