Bibliograph

The Earth gazers, on seeing ourselves, Christopher Potter

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The Earth gazers, on seeing ourselves, Christopher Potter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-440) and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Earth gazers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1018176927

Responsibility statement

Christopher Potter

Sub title

on seeing ourselves

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

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On seeing ourselves

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