posted 05-27-2018 03:27 AM               

Foreword by Charlie Duke
Creative Director Brian May

Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May has just announced a new project he's been working on with author David Eicher. No further details as yet but, if it's anything like the "Queen in 3D" book he released a couple of years ago, I think we're in for a treat!

On edit: In paying tribute to Alan Bean, Brian May posted the following in relation to the 3D book.

Alan was a very accomplished artist, and had just given us (the London Stereoscopic Company) his blessing for us to reproduce this great painting of his "First Men - Neil Armstrong" in our forthcoming 3-D book on the Space Race..

posted 05-27-2018 04:13 AM               

Eicher has written "Mission Moon 3-D," a book containing stereoscopic views of the Moon and with a text covering the Apollo missions, the space race, and the Soviet space program, in association with Brian May and his collaborators. Brian May is listed as Creative Director, with a foreword written by Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke. The book is scheduled to be published in October 2018 by the London Stereoscopic Company and MIT Press, and will include Brian May's celebrated OWL viewer, made for appreciating 3-D images.

posted 06-12-2018 07:24 AM               

The story of the lunar landing and the events that led up to it, told in text and visually stunning 3-D images.

July 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 11's epochal lunar landing, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon. This visually rich book offers a new perspective on that historic accomplishment, telling the story of the lunar landing and the events that led up to it with text and 3-D images. A 3D viewer, designed by astrophysicist (and lead guitarist with the rock group Queen) Brian May is included with the book.

Mission Moon 3-D offers unique access to the Apollo astronauts and what they saw. It tells the story of the US-Soviet space race, from Sputnik and the space dog Laika to Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy declared that America would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong guided the Eagle to a safe landing on the edge of the moon's Sea of Tranquility. President Richard Nixon told the astronauts, and the nation, that it was "the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation." Mission Moon 3-D recounts all this and more in memorable and visually stunning fashion.

• Hardcover: 192 pages
  
• MIT Press (October 23, 2018)
  
• ISBN-10: 0262039451
  
• ISBN-13: 978-0262039451

posted 10-22-2018 06:28 PM               

Please join Astronomy editor David J. Eicher for this short video about "Mission Moon 3-D," his new book with Brian May.