"America In Space NASA's First Fifty Years" by Steven J. Dick, Constance Moore, And Robert Jacobs. Published by Abrams (New York) in 2007. The book is approx 11" x 1 1/2" x 14 1/2" and weighs 6.70lbs. The book is in good, used condition with some light shelf wear on the dust jacket. Some of the pages also have creases on the corner.

For more than a century before 1957, scientists and adventurers dreamed about the exploration of space and designed rockets and vehicles to make it possible, but the real space age began on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite. Until then, America's space exploration had been entrusted to the military, but immediately following Sputnik, the United States began to plan for the first civilian space agency. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) was officially born on July 29, 1958. America in Space is a visual history of NASA, from its early days as a pioneer in supersonic flight, through the first manned space missions of the 1960s, to the shuttle and international space station missions that are still underway.