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NASA in 100 Objects: Innovation and Exploration from Rockets to Rovers
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Expected 15 Sep 26This space coffee table book takes a visual journey through NASA's amazing achievements, featuring 100 influential objects and 200 stunning images
Experience the breadth of NASA's extraordinary history through 100 objects that represent its progress and achievements across the decades. NASA in 100 Objects begins with the agency's origin as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and moves through the space race, Apollo era, rise of Earth orbital activities, International Space Station, and present-day commercial spaceflight.
Each object tells a story of human aspiration and innovation,
Robert Goddard's 1926 Liquid Fueled Rocket, the oldest surviving liquid-propellant rocket in the worldJohn Glenn’s handheld Ansco camera used to take the first human-captured, color still photographs of EarthAn A7L Apollo spacesuitSpace shuttle orbitersChandra X-ray Observatory Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Through 200 images, former NASA historian Roger D. Launius shares influential objects both large and small, famous and lesser known. NASA in 100 Objects is the perfect STEM gift, and an accessible reference guide to the nation's amazing history of space exploration.
Experience the breadth of NASA's extraordinary history through 100 objects that represent its progress and achievements across the decades. NASA in 100 Objects begins with the agency's origin as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and moves through the space race, Apollo era, rise of Earth orbital activities, International Space Station, and present-day commercial spaceflight.
Each object tells a story of human aspiration and innovation,
Robert Goddard's 1926 Liquid Fueled Rocket, the oldest surviving liquid-propellant rocket in the worldJohn Glenn’s handheld Ansco camera used to take the first human-captured, color still photographs of EarthAn A7L Apollo spacesuitSpace shuttle orbitersChandra X-ray Observatory Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Through 200 images, former NASA historian Roger D. Launius shares influential objects both large and small, famous and lesser known. NASA in 100 Objects is the perfect STEM gift, and an accessible reference guide to the nation's amazing history of space exploration.
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Expected publication September 15, 2026
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Roger D. Launius
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Dr. Roger D. Launius earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (American frontier and military history).
Dr. Launius was a civilian historian with the United States Air Force, and became Chief Historian for the Military Airlift Command. Since October 1990 he is Chief Historian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is also Senior Curator at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
He is also involved in the study of nineteenth century history and the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church).
Dr. Roger D. Launius earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (American frontier and military history).
Dr. Launius was a civilian historian with the United States Air Force, and became Chief Historian for the Military Airlift Command. Since October 1990 he is Chief Historian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is also Senior Curator at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
He is also involved in the study of nineteenth century history and the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church).
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