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Space: The Once and Future Frontier (National Geographic, Collector's Edition)

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National Geographic Magazine at it's best with amazing photos of space, space ships, the planets and their travels through space as well as discussions by top writers on the subject including Ray Bradbury, Michael Lemonick, and Robert Irion. ---- Ray Bradbury’s foreword, in which he looks at fiction’s romantic expectations of Mars compared with actual scientific findings from the planet. — Joel Achenbach’s remembrance of international heroes who ventured into space, including Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. — Michael Lemonick’s timeline of the flybys, landings and probes of Earth’s surrounding planets, including their moons, and some asteroids. — Robert Irion’s look at the next wave of scientific discovery, which will explore how planets and solar systems form, what materials hold the planets in their cosmic web and how the universe expands. Fifty years of space exploration are spotlighted in a special collector’s edition of National Geographic magazine. “Space: The Once and Future Frontier” ($10.99), available only on newsstands until Jan. 26, 2009, spans a half-century of space discoveries, from the 1957 Russian Sputnik satellite launch to the New Horizons mission to Pluto currently under way. Punctuated by stunning images of space and the people who probe its mysteries, the issue offers an in-depth look at topics ranging from the danger of landing on the moon and returning to Earth to future space experiments that explore lingering questions about the universe. Also included in the special edition is a chart of space missions, from 1961 to the future planned missions, with descriptions of the spacecraft involved; an illustrated graph with facts about the planets, their orbits and unique characteristics; a pull-out poster on space exploration, showing each country’s space initiative and the flight path of each spacecraft.

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: National Geographic., 2008

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English

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Space
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