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Title: Apollo : An Eyewitness Account By Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker by Alan Bean, John Glenn ISBN: 0-86713-050-4 Publisher: Greenwich Pr Ltd Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.94 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Apollo : An Eyewitness Account By Astronaut/Explorer Artist/
Comment: With the descent of the lunar lander Intrepid, Apollo 12 astronaut Bean became the fourth man to walk on the moon. Since his retirement from NASA in 1981, Bean has devoted himself to his realist paintings; this handsome volume allows him to display both his artistic skills and his orbital experience, reproducing dozens of Bean's paintings of lunar surfaces, moonwalks, astronaut gear and so on, alongside a blow-by-blow narrative of Apollo 12, which Chaikin (The National Air and Space Museum Book of Aviation and Space Flight) has written very much from Bean's perspective. Chaikin and Bean describe the thrills and setbacks on the latter's path from naval aviator to astronaut, his first view of the blue-and-white Earth from 293,000 miles and the technical problems of making sure an American flag stays up on the moon. Final chapters track Bean's adventures with the paint and canvas he took up in 1974 ("Flying skills are so much like painting skills, it's amazing"), the exploits and close calls of other astronauts and Bean's hopes for his art and for space exploration. Short paragraphs in which Bean explains his pictures' subjects and techniques alternate with the longer segments of narrative; this format can make the whole book seem scattered, though the images, and the anecdotes, retain undeniable power. The meticulously detailed paintings themselves add warmth and a mid-19th-century softness to the photos and equipment on which many of them are based.
Rating: 5
Summary: Alan Bean - Astronaut Painter
Comment: A truly magnificent portayal of mans greatest achievement. I followed Apollo 12 as a 14 year old kid back in 1969 and the wonderment of those flights to the moon has never left me. Seeing Bean's paintings puts me on the surface of the moon better than any photograph could. I advise anyone interested in America's Manned Space Program or the History of Art to buy this book. Unlike the other reviewers in this section, I believe the astronauts of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs went on their journeys for ALL of us, not just the United States.
Rating: 5
Summary: He's the best!
Comment: If you want to experience the moon through the eyes of an artist and an astronaut this book is for you! It is inspiring and educational. Highly recommeded!
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Title: Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins, Charles A. Lindbergh ISBN: 081541028X Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Schirra's Space (Bluejacket Books) by Wally Schirra, Walter M. Schirra, Richard Billings ISBN: 1557507929 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: First on the Moon by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin ISBN: 156852398X Publisher: William s Konecky Assoc Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.98 |
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Title: The Last Man on the Moon : Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space by Don Davis ISBN: 0312199066 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race by Thomas P. Stafford, Michael Cassutt ISBN: 1588340708 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: 20 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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