America In Space: NASA's First Fifty Years Hardcover – October 1, 2007

I saw this book at the library and wanted it for my collection. found it here used and excellent price for a large format beautiful book. I love it!

This book is huge, look at the dimensions before you buy (14.5 x 11.2 x 1.4 inches), when it's open it takes over 22 inchs of desk or lap space. It's mostly high quality color pictures and very little text. I grew up during the start of the US space program and find most of the early pictures fascinating. The book is sectioned off by different space programs beginning with project Mercury and ends with our current programs. Other non-space programs that were required for the run-up to Mercury are covered as well. I wish there was more written about each of the different space programs. It's a good buy if you have the room for it.

I enjoy space history, and I really enjoy the pictures and text of this book. It's a large book, so the pictures are very enjoyable to look at. The time during the "Space Race" was unique for the United States of America. There were feelings and attitudes at the time that are so different than those of today. Because of that, the book offers an interesting perspective on life in America during that time. So many people weren't alive during these times, this book will help them understand much more clearly how things were.

A large coffee table book containing the most comprehensive black-and-white and color photographic collection of the history of NASA I have every read. Many large unique photographs offering first hand insight of the people and equipment that put man in space. Too heavy for casual night time reading but a great photographic reference book for all ages. Very well organized with chapters from pre-NASA high speed flight testing to the Shuttle program. Highly recommended for those that wish to understand the history of the American manned space flight program.

This book is huge and pretty expensive. It is not for the casual reader. It is so big you have to set it on a table to look at it. Some of the pictures are classics, that you will be familiar with. But many are rare shots that you do not see often, if at all. My father worked for the space program back in the 1960's and he loves this book.

When I ordered this book, I had no idea quite how large it is, you need a serious coffee table for this very serious and all-inclusive book. The book provides both a detailed narrative and a plethora of photos from the beginnings of NASA's space exploration. This book is the definitive book about America's venture into space, in its first 50 years.

It's a big book, a perfect gift for people liking space or just to show them how cool it is.It's full of really big and nice pictures and some explanations. It will remotivate immediately any student who is wondering why he took aerospace engineering and the bunch of equations that go with it.

Gorgeous book! Bought for a 10 year old and he enjoys it immensely. Vivid, large full color pictures. Very thorough!