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Air and Space The National Air and Space Museum Story of Flight

Paperback • 1997 • English • 1. edition

Air and Space The National Air and Space Museum Story of Flight

By Andrew Chaikin

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About the book

Drawing on the peerless collections of the National Air and Space Museum - the most-visited museum in the world - this book brings us the story of the conquest of the skies. More than 400 photographs and illustrations - some commissioned especially for this volume, depict the milestones of aviation and spaceflight. Here are Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, the incomparable DC-3 airliner, Chuck Yeager's record-breaking X-1, the spacecraft and suits of the first Americans to walk in space, Skylab,...Show more

Materials science
Aerospace and aviation technology

Book details

ISBN

9780821226704

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published year

1997

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Air and Space The National Air and Space Museum Story of Flight

Format

Paperback

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