Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini - by John Bisney & J L Pickering (Hardcover)

About the Book

"A wonderful collection of rarely seen photographs that true space buffs will enjoy. The captions are worth their weight in space-fact gold.."--Richard W. Orloff, coauthor of Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook

Book Synopsis

A wonderful collection of rarely seen photographs that true space buffs will enjoy. The captions are worth their weight in space-fact gold..--Richard W. Orloff, coauthor of Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook

Review Quotes

A wonderful collection of rarely seen photographs that true space buffs will enjoy. The captions are worth their weight in space-fact gold. --Richard W. Orloff, coauthor of Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook

An enjoyable book, offering a different look at familiar missions.
--The Space Review

From a space enthusiast's perspective, Pickering's book feeds an interest in the 'not-so-common' NASA image that everyone has seen before.
--The Pantagraph

If you think you've seen every cool photo from the pioneering days of NASA, think again! J. L. Pickering and John Bisney have combed the archives . . . to create an extraordinary visual record that will delight and surprise even the most hard-core space enthusiast.-- Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

In resurrecting many obscure photos the authors have provided a valuable, and highly desirable, compendium of outstanding pictures from an age when each flight saw the release of perhaps fewer than one-hundred stock shots.
--Spaceflight

The value of this collection is enhanced many times over by the exhaustive research that has gone into providing informative and accurate captions for each picture.
--The Observatory

The visual narrative employed by the authors reminds us not only of the sublimity of astronaut photography, but also the thousands of people who made spaceflight possible.
--Quest

Together, [Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini and Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo] are a treat for any space buff and, for the true believers, a reminder that even greater journeys may lie just ahead.
--American Scientist

About the Author

John Bisney is a former correspondent who covered the space program for more than thirty years for CNN, the Discovery Channel, and SiriusXM Radio, among other news outlets. He is also the coauthor, with J. L. Pickering, of Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare Photographic History (UNM Press) and Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo: A Rare Photographic History (UNM Press).

J. L. Pickering is a space-flight historian who has been archiving rare space images and historic artifacts for some forty years. He is also the coauthor, with John Bisney, of Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare Photographic History (UNM Press) and Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo: A Rare Photographic History (UNM Press).