<b>This space coffee table book takes a visual journey through NASA's amazing achievements, featuring 100 influential objects and more than 300 stunning images</b><br><br>Experience the breadth of NASA's extraordinary history through 100 objects that represent its progress and achievements across the decades. <i>NASA in 100 Objects </i>begins with the agency's origin as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and moves through the space race, Apollo era, rise of Earth orbital activities, International Space Station, and present-day commercial spaceflight.<br><br>Each object tells a story of human aspiration and innovation, including:<br><br><ul><li>Robert Goddard's 1926 Liquid Fueled Rocket, the oldest surviving liquid-propellant rocket in the world</li><li>John Glenn’s handheld Ansco camera used to take the first human-captured, color still photographs of Earth</li><li>An A7L Apollo spacesuit</li><li>Space shuttle orbiters</li><li>Chandra X-ray Observatory </li><li><i>Ingenuity</i> Mars Helicopter</li></ul><br>Through more than 300 images, former NASA historian Roger D. Launius shares influential objects both large and small, famous and lesser known. <i>NASA in 100 Objects </i>is the perfect STEM gift, and an accessible reference guide to the nation's amazing history of space exploration.