Spaceships 2nd Edition

This revised and expanded second edition of Spaceships includes sixty-four pages worth of the newest developments in space technology

Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined explores how art and science have merged in the creation of real and fictional spaceships, from Mercury and Apollo spacecraft to Millennium Falcon and Starship Enterprise. This second edition is thoroughly updated to offer a complete history of spaceships. It builds off the original book with new information and developments in topics that include: 

• Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne

• Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems

• Bigelow Aerospace’s B330 inflatable space stations

• SpaceX’s Falcon 9

• Future Mars exploration, moon landers, and interstellar ships

• New foreword from Bobak Ferdowsi, an American Flight engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• New foreword from Kathryn D. Sullivan, geologist and former…