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Artifacts of Flight

Artifacts of Flight

by JohnGlenn (Author), Carolyn Russo (Author)

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    Hardcover 2003

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Synopsis

The National Air and Space Museum, USA has taken great care to collect and preserve artefacts relating to the history of flight. These objects - culled from famous aviators and astronauts, planes and spacecraft, and popular culture sources such as television and motion pictures - are a testament to the impact that the science of flight has made upon mankind. The artefacts range in size from a message capsule for a carrier pigeon to the space shuttle, and in time from the first photograph of ballooning in America (1857) to a humanitarian food ration dropped over Afghanistan (2001). Each object is accompanied by a succinct description of its place in history, replete with anecdotes.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 160
 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Published: 10 Nov 2003
ISBN 10: 0810945304
ISBN 13: 9780810945302

Author Bio
Carolyn Russo is a staff photographer at the National Air and Space Museum. She is the author of Women and Flight: Portraits of Contemporary Women Pilots, which was turned into a traveling photography exhibition. It visited twenty-seven venues over the course of five years. Dr. Ted A. Maxwell is associate director for the Department of Collections and Research at the National Air and Space Museum, which entails the curatorial and scientific research departments, the Museum's Archives, and the Collections Division. Maxwell has authored more than fifty publications on planetary research and has conducted numerous lectures to both professional and public audiences. He is associate editor for Air and Space Smithsonian Magazine and series editor for the Smithsonian Library of the Solar System.