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Dan Winters - Last Launch: Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis - 9780292739635 - V9780292739635
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Last Launch: Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis

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Description for Last Launch: Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis Hardback. Powerfully evoking the unquenchable American spirit of exploration, award-winning photographer Dan Winters chronicles the final launches of Discovery, Endeavour, and Atlantis in this stunning photographic tribute to America's space shuttle program Num Pages: 90 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJC; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 311 x 254 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1486.

Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Book Festival Book Award, Photography, 2013

Americans have been driven to explore beyond the horizon ever since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. In the twentieth century, that drive took us to the moon and inspired dreams of setting foot on other planets and voyaging among the stars. The vehicle we built to launch those far journeys was the space shuttle—Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. This fleet of reusable spacecraft was designed to be our taxi to earth orbit, where we would board spaceships heading for strange new worlds. While the shuttle program never accomplished that ... Read more

Last Launch is a stunning photographic tribute to America’s space shuttle program. Dan Winters was one of only a handful of photographers to whom NASA gave close-range access to photograph the last launches of Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. Positioning automatically controlled cameras at strategic points around the launch pad—some as close as seven hundred feet—he recorded images of take-offs that capture the incredible power and transcendent beauty of the blast that sends the shuttle hurtling into space. Winters also takes us on a visual tour of the shuttle as a marvel of technology—from the crew spaces with their complex instrumentation, to the massive engines that propelled the shuttle, to the enormous vehicle assembly building where the shuttles were prepared for flight.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292739635
SKU
V9780292739635
Shipping Time
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About Dan Winters
Known for the broad range of subject matter he is able to interpret, Dan Winters has had his photographs published in Esquire, GQ, Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Time, Texas Monthly, Wired, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and many other national and international publications. Aperture published a book of his magazine work titled Dan ... Read more

Reviews for Last Launch: Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis
"One of the aspects of Dan Winters' photography that I've really enjoyed throughout the years is his fascination with science. Although he's well-known for his celebrity portraits, he also does a fair amount of work for science magazines like Discover, where he also shows off his penchant for set building. But even with this knowledge, I was pleasantly surprised to ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Last Launch: Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis


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