Air & Space - 2012 January
Complete issue of the "Air & Space" magazine January 2012. Content: FEATURES: 1 Visionary + 3 Launchers +1,500 Employees = ? - Will the strategies of SpaceX founder Elon Musk add up to cheap access to space? BY ANDREW CHAIKIN A Pearl Harbor Mystery - How a 1940s Interstate Cadet trainer sent a famous airshow pilot on a journey to find a kindred spirit. BY JOHN FLEISCHMAN The Kids Are Trying to Crash - It's the only way to fly high-strung, remote-control models if you want to be Extreme Flight champion. BY PRESTON LERNER - PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK FADELY HOW THINGS WORK: Dropping in on Mars - Landing a one-ton laboratory on another planet takes ingenuity - and a good braking system. BY TONY REICHHARDT - ILLUSTRATION BY HARRY WHITVER Design by Rutan - A retrospective of Burt Rutan's high-performance art. PHOTOGRAPHS BY JIM SUGAR Pointer & Shooter BY OEBBIE GARY - A pilot-photographer pair proves once again: Two heads are better than one. PHOTOGRAPHS BY JIM KOEPNICK - FLYING BY BRUCE MOORE The Second-Moon Theory Were there once two moons in Earth's sky? BY DAMOND BENNINGFIELD The Other Air Forces - If you could judge a country by its flying force... STORY ANO ILLUSTRATIONS BY BRUCE McCALL The Candle Lighters - What it was like in the blockhouse the day a team of missileers launched Alan Shepard into space. BY TONY REICHHARDT PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL R. BROWN and more... .mars.
Magazine
many photos
very good condition
Washington D.C. - 2012 - Smithsonian Institution
Art.Nr. 16430
