Spaceshots & Snapshots of Projects Mercury & Gemini

A Rare Photographic History

John Bisney, J.L. Pickering

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University of New Mexico Press
01 June 2015

Photographs: collections; Mathematics & Sciences; Astronautics

The race to space between the United States and the Soviet Union captured the popular imagination.

On April 12, 1961, the USSR launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on a one-orbit flight, making him the first human in space. Three weeks later, American astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. flew 116 miles above Earth before splashing down in the Bahamas. Over the next twenty years astronauts emerged as national heroes.

This book tells the story of the people and events of Projects Mercury and Gemini with hundreds of unpublished and rare photographs, both colour and black-and-white. Unlike other publications, which illustrate the space race with well-known and easily accessible images, this history draws from the author's private library of over one hundred thousand (and growing) high-quality photos of the early U.S. manned-space program.

Collected over a lifetime from public and private sources - including NASA archives, fellow collectors, retired NASA and news photographers, and auction house - these images document American space missions of the Cold War era more comprehensively than ever before.

Devoting a chapter to each flight, the authors also include detailed descriptions, providing new insight into one of America's greatest triumphs.

By: John Bisney, J.L. Pickering
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 305mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1.497kg
ISBN: 9780826352613
ISBN 10: 0826352618
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 June 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Bisney is a former correspondent who covered the space program for more than thirty years for CNN, the Discovery Channel, and SiriusXM Radio, among other news outlets. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. J. L. Pickering lives in Bloomington, Illinois, USA. He is a space-flight historian who has been archiving rare space images and historic artefacts for some forty years.

Reviews for Spaceshots & Snapshots of Projects Mercury & Gemini: A Rare Photographic History

If you think you ve seen every cool photo from the pioneering days of NASA, think again! J. L. Pickering and John Bisney have combed the archives . . . to create an extraordinary visual record that will delight and surprise even the most hard-core space enthusiast. Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts