Signed Copy of "Orbit: NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth"
Item Number: 114
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Online Close: May 29, 2006 5:00 PM EDT
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Description
This 200+ page National Geographic book of amazing photographs taken from space is signed by astronaut Jay Apt. co-author with geographer Justin Wilkinson and senior NASA scientist Michael Helfert. Dr. Apt has flown nearly 850 hours in space as crew member, flight engineer or shift commander on both Atlantis (STS-37 and 79) and Endeavor (STS-47 and 59), and docked with the the Russian MIR spacecraft.
Special Instructions
"Orbit takes the reader into space for astronauts' views of home... Like any travelers, these voyagers in space have aimed their cameras at sights that startled their eyes. They have flown through the aurora and captured its rippling, mystic colors. They have looked down on storms and volcanoes. And they have documented the human imprint upon the earth..."