Book Review: Creating Space
Creating Space: The Story of the Space Age Through Models
352 pages
550 photographs (176 in full-color pictures)
listings for 250 modeling subjects covering 300 model manufacturers.
About the author:
Mat Irvine worked in the BBC Visual Effects Department for 20 years, contributing to many projects including Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, Edge of Darkness, the various NASA flights, and many science and space-oriented documentaries and programmes.
Creating Space shows the progression through the history of the space age, from th epast, the poresent and into the future.
From the introducton of the V-2 rcocket starting the “space race”, up th ethe International Space Station, and then into the future of space flight.
A detailed and complete explanation of vehicles is given, side by side with pictures and details of models that depict the multitude of aircraft and spacecraft developed throughout the world.
In addition, extensive appendices provide details of all of the space-related models ever made and the many manufacturers and distributors who have supplied them – all in the words of an experienced professional insider.
Creating Space is presented in 12 chapters which logically group together the history, the vehicles and the models into logical and meaningful categories. This book will be equally valuable to space enthusiasts, modellers, and space historians.
Review
“I defy anybody not to be fired up by the author’s obvious enthusiasm…” — Spaceflight, May 2003. “An absolute joy to dip into…” — The Observatory, June 2003. “This book is ideal for model hobbyists, and for space history enthusiasts…” — Astronomy Now, July 2003.
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