The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions
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Piers Bizony
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- File Type: PDF
- File Size: 129.1 MB
- Book Language: English
- Total Page Count: 223
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The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions
The Art of NASA brings together the illustrations that sold the missions. This expanded collector’s edition by Piers Bizony is supplied as a digital PDF, available for instant download after purchase.
From early dream visions to the Space Shuttle and beyond, the book presents artwork created by NASA and aerospace artists to make future spaceflight visible and believable. Astronaut Tom Jones contributes the foreword.
The Art of NASA: Book Overview
The Art of NASA is a visual history of the space program as seen through the eyes of its artists. It covers the optimism of the mid-20th century, the Apollo voyages, Earth orbit stations, and visions of Mars and deep space.
The expanded collector’s edition includes a foreword by Space Shuttle astronaut Tom Jones and additional research by Mike Acs. The book was first published in 2020, with this second edition published in 2023 by Motorbooks, an imprint of The Quarto Group.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- NASA and aerospace artwork used to communicate early space ambitions to the public.
- Illustrations from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo eras, including preflight press release art.
- Paintings by Russ Arasmith, Paul Calle, Robert McCall, Davis Meltzer, and others.
- Popular-press visions such as Howard Schafer’s 1967 Saturn V illustration for Popular Mechanics.
- Views of the Space Shuttle, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the International Space Station.
- Concepts for returning to the Moon, reaching Mars, and exploring beyond the solar system.
Why This Book Matters
Space art helped turn engineering plans into shared national goals. By showing what missions might accomplish, these illustrations gave the public a clear picture of why space exploration mattered.
This collection preserves that legacy. It also shows how artists worked alongside NASA and its contractors to imagine places that cameras had not yet reached.
Book Details
| Format | |
|---|---|
| File Size | 129.1 MB |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 223 |
| Title | The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions |
| Author | Piers Bizony |
| Foreword | Tom Jones |
| Additional Research | Mike Acs |
| Edition | Expanded collector’s edition, second edition |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7603-8257-8 |
| eISBN | 978-0-7603-8258-5 |
| Publisher | Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc. |
| Imprint | Motorbooks, an imprint of The Quarto Group |
| Publisher Location | Beverly, MA 01915, USA |
| First Published | 2020 |
| Second Edition Published | 2023 |
| Digital Edition Published | 2023 |
| Cover Image Credit | NASA/Robert Watts (Apollo 15 preflight press release art) |
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The PDF can be read with Kindle apps, tablets, desktop, mobile, and reading apps that support PDF. Printing is not guaranteed.
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Will a physical copy be shipped? No. This is a digital edition, so there is no physical shipping.
What devices can I use? The PDF works with Kindle apps, tablets, desktop, mobile, and reading apps that support PDF.
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