![]() ![]() Moonshots is the definitive photographic chronicle of NASA space exploration-a giant slipcased book featuring more than 200 remarkable photographs from that eventful era created almost exclusively on large-format Hasselblad cameras. ![]() 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. In December 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 captured images depicting Earth hanging like a lonely fruit in the vast darkness of space. 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. ![]() 50 Years of NASA Space Exploration Seen Through Hasselblad Cameras ![]()
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Lee’s 1,100-acre estate across the Potomac from Washington, D.C. WITH SEARING HONESTY, A RETIRED SOLDIER/PROFESSOR COMES TO TERMS WITH HIS LIFELONG WORSHIP OF A TRAITORĮarly in the Civil War, the Union Army seized “Arlington” - Robert E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Intimate and alluring with exclusive photography throughout, and illustrations by the author, My Name's Yours, What's Alaska? is the ultimate backstage pass. ![]() Finally coming clean on her home planet (earth), this dishy, visual memoir tells the stories that shaped Alaska into an All Star: from prom king to the House of Haunt, to the very public breakup that almost destroyed her. This is the story of one of the galaxy's greatest queens, Alaska Thunderfuck 5000, as she transforms from wearing dresses made of trash bags because she has to, to wearing dresses made of trash bags because she wants to. 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Leave a sympathy message to the family on the memorial page of Thomas E. Lockwood (Springfield, Ohio), born in Marion, Ohio, who passed away on July 13, 2019, at the age of 83, leaving to mourn family and friends. 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