Böcker av Philip Collier

Enjoy the favorite photos of an airline pilot who has flown for decades and often brought along a camera for "scenes to keep and share." As much as technology has changed over time, so have the companies and also the world. Astronaut Alan Bean once said that "Earth is the Garden of Eden, and we are still in it." We are mostly so close and busy as to not appreciate the dynamic and living world we inhabit. Here, the images show beautiful days of crisp, clean air and other days of dust or pollution one can smell and taste. Sprinkled among the scenes of sky and earth are a few images any pilot who has flown the line will recognize, with a knowing smile.

It was in 1958 when the Jet Propulsion Laboratory first deployed engineers and equipment around the world to maintain radio contact with spacecraft. Over the years, ever more sophisticated and far reaching space probes have challenged NASA to set up increasingly complex and powerful stations for tracking and communications. Through today's Deep Space Network, we receive incredibly detailed images and data from probes we have sent for studying other planets and open space beyond. Not only are antennas of the Deep Space Network a tribute to radio science, they are majestic sculptures of metal which reach out with microwaves to touch other worlds. Here is a book of pictures to convey the beauty and power of immense yet precise structures which tower over NASA's three DSN complexes in California, Spain, and Australia.