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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.13074753
EAN num: 9780060851552
ISBN number: 0060851554
Label: Collins
Manufacturer: Collins
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 208
Printing Date: May 01, 2006
Publishing house: Collins
Release Date: May 09, 2006
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Experience the thrill of flying some of the world's most important airplanes and spacecraft. Best Of The National Air And Space Museum provides unprecedented acess to the most popular museum in the world.
The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum hosts more than 9 million visitors a year, and the newly opened Dulles Center –three football fields long and ten stories high – is a phenomenon in its own right: in the very first week it was opened, some 250,000 people came through the doors.
Best Of The National Air And Space Museum features the best of both museums, from the Challenger space shuttle and the Wright flyer to the Spirit of St. Louis and the stealth bomber. Bob Van der Linden, curator of aeronautics, has selected the most historically important, popular, and just plain impressive aircraft and spacecraft from the collections of both museums to be captured in the book's beautiful full colour layouts. Each layout includes intriguing facts of the item's design, use, mission, specifications, and dimensions. It's like your own guided tour!
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Great photograghs with well written copy. This book makes me want to go to this museum and see very first hand the items displayed. Highly recommend!!!
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i'm an engineer- worked rocket motors, and various satellite programs. this book was recommended by associate after visiting the museum at Langley. The pics are super, with short descriptions, and moderate on the tech. It's an amazing pulse of this wild history, and mostly is from America's lineage. St. Louis, Mercury, Atlas, and up to current Shuttle. There's also the SST, and unique turn of the century early birds. A fine read to be shared with a youngster (my son 10, digs it), or for the history or engineering buff. amazon has it cheaper than at the museum.
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