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The Smithsonian Atlas of Space Exploration is a pictorial compendium of everything space-related, neatly arranged in sections covering the birth of rocketry, the first manned missions, the pioneering of Earth orbit, the exploration of the Moon, and the unmanned probing of the solar system. There are cutaway drawings of classic rockets, maps of lunar landing sites and the world’s spaceports, and a host of other remarkable photographs, diagrams, and tables. For the confirmed space buff and the appreciative lay reader alike, this is transport to seventh heaven.