The Earth gazers : on seeing ourselves / Christopher Potter.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Potter, Christopher, 1959- author.

Contributor:

• Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Project Apollo (U.S.).
• Manned space flight.
• Space flight to the moon.
• Astronauts--United States--History--20th century.
• Astronauts.
• History.
• United States.
• Space flight.
• SCIENCE / Astronomy.
• Astronauts--United States--History--20th Century.
• Science--History.
• Science--Space science.
• Manned space flight--Popular works.

Local Subjects:

• Space flight.
• SCIENCE / Astronomy.
• Astronauts--United States--History--20th Century.
• Science--History.
• Science--Space science.
• Manned space flight--Popular works.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

456 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.

Other Title:

On seeing ourselves

Place of Publication:

New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.

Summary:

Only twenty-four people have seen the whole earth. The most beautiful and influential photographs ever made were taken, almost as an afterthought, by the astronauts of the Apollo space program from the moon. The Earth Gazers is a book about the long road to the capture of the unforgettable images of Earth taken from space. It is a history of the space program and of the ways in which it transformed our view of the earth and changed the lives of the astronauts who walked in space and on the moon. It is the story of the often blemished visionaries who inspired that journey into space: Charles Lindbergh, Robert Goddard and Wernher Von Braun, and of the courageous pilots who were the first humans to escape the Earth's orbit. These twenty-four people saw Earth in all its singular glory, and the legacy of the stories of these "Earth Gazers," resonate richly even today.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-440) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

• 9781681776361
• 1681776367

OCLC:

1018176927

Publisher Number:

99975605782

Online:

The Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund Home Page