Available in paperback to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing,
Moonshots
presents stunning photos of space and Earth from NASA’s archives—taken by Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and ISS astronauts using high resolution Hasselblad cameras.
In December 1968, the
crew of Apollo 8 captured images depicting Earth
hanging like a lonely fruit in the vast darkness of space. The social and spiritual shock of that photograph—and those which followed—never fully diminished, even as Apollo missions followed at an incredible pace, including the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969.
is the
definitive photographic chronicle
of NASA space exploration, featuring more than
200 remarkable large-format photographs
from that eventful era. Though a number of these images have been reproduced in books and magazines over the years, one attribute of this incredible collection has seldom been exploited: the
sheer size and resolution of the photography
. Aerospace author Piers Bizony scoured NASA’s archives of Hasselblad film frames to assemble the space fan’s ultimate must-have book.
This resulting volume extracts a stunning selection of photographs captured by astronauts using Hasselblad equipment, many of them seldom previously published. The Apollo voyages form the centerpiece of this amazing collection, but equally fabulous images from
precursor Gemini missions
are also featured, along with later photographs chronicling
Space Shuttle missions
and even the construction of the International Space Station.