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<b><i>Spacecraft </i>takes a long look at humankind's attempts and advances in leaving Earth through incredible illustrations and authoritatively written profiles on Sputnik, the International Space Station, and beyond.</b><br /><br /> In 1957, the world looked on with both uncertainty and amazement as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first man-made orbiter. Sputnik 1 would spend three months circling Earth every 98 minutes and covering 71 million miles in the process. The world’s space programs have traveled far (literally and figuratively) since then, and the spacecraft they have developed and deployed represent almost unthinkable advances for such a relatively short period.<br /><br /> This ambitiously<b> illustrated aerospace history </b>profiles and depicts spacecraft from<b><i></i>Sputnik 1 </b>through the<b> International Space Station</b>, and<b></b>everything in between, including concepts that have yet to actually venture outside the Earth’s atmosphere. Illustrator an