John Bisney and J. L. Pickering are also the authors of Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare Photographic History. John Bisney is a correspondent who covered the space program for more than thirty years for CNN, the Discovery Channel, and Sirius/XM Radio, among other news outlets. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. J. L. Pickering lives in Bloomington, Illinois. He is a spaceflight historian who has been archiving rare space images and historic artifacts for some forty years.
"J. L. Pickering and John Bisney have done it again! . . .
Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo comes with SpaceFlight
Insider's highest recommendation. It is an excellent follow-on to
Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare
Photographic History as well as an exceptional addition to any
space enthusiast's library."--SpaceFlight Insider
"These 'Moonshots and Snapshots' provide a new perspective on
NASA's Project Apollo. . . . Bisney and Pickering don't just focus
on the iconic images that we all recognize; instead, they opened
their lens to the machinery behind the missions (computers and
other hardware), the astronauts' pranks, and the rank-and-file NASA
workers who made it all happen."--Modern Notion Daily
"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
"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 of photojournalists who covered the Mercury, Gemini,
Apollo, and Skylab missions 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
"John Bisney and J. L. Pickering have assembled 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
"Pairs many previously unpublished images from Pickering's
collection with captions that identify many NASA, military, and
contract workers."--Quest
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