Milestones of Science Books

NASA.

Lunar Astronautical Chart (LAC) series.

St. Louis: ACIC, published for United States Air Force and NASA, 1962.

1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good. Item #002199

1962-1966. 21 (of 44) sheets, size 22 x 29 inches (735 x 560 mm). Present are LAC numbers 39-42, 56-62, 74-80, 93-95. A few marginal creases in places. ----

Ashworth, The face of the moon, Linda Hall 39 (for Chart 'Mare Humorum') - "The success of the Lunar Photographic Atlas inspired the U.S. Air Force to embark on the project of producing detailed charts of the moon based on the same photographs used by Kuiper. With the exception of Lohrmann and perhaps Mayer, this was the first time that professional cartographers had been called on to deal with the problem of mapping the lunar surface. The moon was divided into 68 quadrants (although the numbers run from 1-144, since the far side was included in the numbering system), and the first two maps appeared in 1961. Eventually, 44 charts were published, until the project was superseded by later efforts. The maps are on a scale of 1:1 million, equivalent to a moon over eleven feet in diameter." (Ashworth) - Visit our website to see more images!

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