NASA celebrates half a century of American spaceflight with a new collection of space exploration images
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On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard spent 15 minutes in space. Almost half a century has elapsed since America's first fling with the cosmos. And what ride it has been as witnessed in these images from America In Space: NASA's First Fifty Years by Steven Dick, Robert Jacobs, Constance Moore and Bertram Ulrich, with a foreword by Neil Armstrong.
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Add CommentMy wife got this book for me for Christmas, and it is awesome. It doesn't fit on any of our bookshelves, but thats ok because I always love having it open even 4 months after Christmas. The best part is that that I haven't "finished" it because I can spend 10 minutes on a few pages. It sits right next to my "Cosmos: a field guide" which is actually bigger!
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I remember the promise of the Space Age in the 1950s & 60s and being utterly disappointed at the direction the country then took with it's resources & manpower diverted to wars and so on. But history has shown events like this rarely "grow legs" unless motivated by money, politics, or both. I just hope things will keep moving like they now are, people are again starting to realize that the young need to be educated in technology or we will quickly lose our place in the world.
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