Vivid Program With Three Authors Melds Art And Space Science at The Museum of Flight Seattle
At The Museum of Flight in Seattle, award-winning author Ron Miller and new Smithsonian coauthors Matthew Shindell and Margaret Weitekamp will lead a visual journey through the history of the spaceship in our collective imagination and in reality. Their program is based upon the new edition of their popular book, Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined. A book signing follows the program. Miller will be attending virtually, but signed bookplates will be provided so the books will bear the signatures of all three authors. The 2 p.m. event is presented as part of the Museum’s new Home Beyond Earth exhibition and is free with general admission. Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined
explores how art and science have merged in the creation of real and fictional spaceships, from Mercury and Apollo spacecraft to Millennium Falcon and Starship Enterprise. This second edition is thoroughly updated to offer a complete history of spaceships. It builds off the original book with new information and developments in topics that include: Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems Bigelow Aerospace’s B330 inflatable space stations SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Future Mars exploration, moon landers, and interstellar ships New foreword from Bobak Ferdowsi, an American Flight engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory New foreword from Kathryn D. Sullivan, geologist and former NASA astronaut who was the first American woman to spacewalk.Spaceships An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined
Award-winning author Ron Miller and new Smithsonian coauthors Matthew Shindell and Margaret Weitekamp take readers on a visual journey through the history of the spaceship, both in our collective imagination and in reality. Vivid illustrations trace spaceships through their conception, engineering, and building. The exquisitely detailed book charts the ubiquity of spaceships in the golden age of space travel (1950s and ’60s) and their broad influence in popular art, television, film, and literature. Spaceships is a vibrant and visual book on the history of spaceships, past, present, and future. Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined
The exquisitely detailed book charts the ubiquity of spaceships in the golden age of space travel (1950s and ’60s) and their broad influence on popular art, television, film and literature. The new edition includes material on Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne, Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems, Bigelow Aerospace’s B330 inflatable space stations, SpaceX’s Falcon 9, future Mars exploration, moon landers and interstellar ships.
Museum of Flight Seattle
The main display area of the Museum of Flight, located at Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington. (Photo via
