If you’re a fan of Space Art, or if you’re looking for a Holiday gift for someone who has Everything, I highly recommend The Art of NASA. Gorgeous Chestley Bonestell paintings grace the pages of this oversized coffee table book. Very cool sketches of various rockets, illustrations of space craft on the Moon, and dramatic paintings of Space Walks dazzle these pages.
Piers Bizony clearly describes the various NASA missions, writes about the type of artwork commissioned to promote the mission, and how the marketing was used to gain political and public support.
Some of my favorite illustrations capture the various landers planned for Mars and other planets and moons. And I love the details about the artists who created these marvelous, artistic glimpses of the Future! GRADE: A
Not for me, but I love that cover illustration.
Jeff, I love this Space artwork. Space ships and astronauts on the covers of paperbacks and SF magazines attracted me as a kid. THE ART OF NASA collects over a hundred eye-popping paintings!
Looks good!
Rick, you would love the paintings in THE ART OF NASA! Eye Candy!
Very nice. If I were into coffee table books I’d buy it.
Same here!
Actually I prefer to see those things and these people live. Over the years I’ve been to the NASA center near Houston and of course to Cap Kennedy several times – fantastic to see these capsules, rockets, space suits … live. Fascinating!
Just comparing the gigantic Saturn V rocket to the extremely small capsule where 3 astronauts were kind of imprisoned for several days gave me the creeps …
Wolf, now Space Exploration in the U.S. is all about Elon Musk and SpaceX.
Michael, I asked the Librarians to buy THE ART OF NASA and they did. Well worth a look!