50 Years In Space: What We Thought Then, What We Know Now - Softcover

Moore, Patrick; Hardy, David A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904332609 ISBN 13: 9781904332602

Publisher: AAPPL Artists & Photographers Press Limited, 2006

Synopsis

Patrick Moore, one of the world’s best-known astronomers and host of the BBC’s record-breaking series The Sky at Night, joins forces with celebrated “space artist” David Hardy in a lavishly illustrated look at our evolving images of space. Looking back to their 1972 classic, Challenge of the Stars, Moore and Hardy show how early space art sometimes proved amazingly prophetic—incorporating ideas about spacecraft and space stations that would later come true. They also show how some of the spectacular fantasies of the ’70s gave way to realities more fantastic still, such as the canyons of Mars, the geysers on Triton, neutron stars, and black holes.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"I welcome David Hardy's new book with my old friend Patrick
Moore. Space has inspired many fine illustrators . . . but today David is
their most gifted exponent." -- Sir Arthur C. Clarke

From the Inside Flap

Dr Brian May (Queen) writes: "David Hardy's space art is
unique. He creates his own special kind of virtual reality; through his
astounding vision and technique we glimpse landscapes in worlds where Man
has mever set foot. . . In the pages of this wonderful book these two men
take us out to the stars. And beyond."

Edition details

• Publisher: AAPPL Artists & Photographers Press Limited
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904332609
• ISBN 13: 9781904332602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112