Navette spatiale

Robin Kerrod
Year1985
PublisherÉditions Carrère
LanguageFR
ISBN9782868042156
Pages69
Rating★★☆☆☆ (2/5)
AudienceGeneral, Youth
LevelBeginner
Keywords
artificial satellitespace colonizationSpace Shuttle
ThemesHuman Spaceflight

A large-format illustrated album devoted to the American Space Shuttle, published by Éditions Carrère in 1985 from an English original by Robin Kerrod (Space Shuttle, Multimedia Publications, 1984). Across five chapters it traces the program's origins, describes the architecture of the orbiter, boosters and external tank, presents the selection and training of the astronauts, details in-orbit operations (satellite deployment, Spacelab missions, spacewalks) and closes on future prospects (space stations, orbital solar power plants, lunar mining). The imagery, supplied entirely by NASA, fills most of the pages.

📖 Editorial Review

A French translation of a 1984 British title, this large-format book by Robin Kerrod runs through the story of the American shuttle in five chapters and some seventy pages. Throughout, the text stays firmly in the background, behind spectacular imagery supplied entirely by NASA. …