Apollo expeditions to the moon : the NASA history / edited by Edgar M. Cortright ; foreword by Paul Dickson.
Record details
- ISBN: 0486836525
- ISBN: 9780486836522
- Physical Description: xli, 311 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm
- Edition: The 50th anniversary edition.
- Publisher: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes index.Originally published: Washington, D.C. : NASA, 1975. With a new introd.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Foreword to 50th anniversary edition -- A perspective on Apollo : the forces that set us on the path to the Moon / James E. Webb -- "I believe we should go to the Moon" : engineering what had never been done before / Robert R. Gilruth -- Saturn the Giant : building the boosters to send men beyond Earth / Wernher Von Braun -- The spaceships : building the first craft to cross an ocean of space / George M. Low -- Scouting the Moon : mechanical explorers went before human ones / Edgar M. Cortright -- The Cape : the new shipyard of space created for Apollo / Rocco A. Petrone -- "This is Mission Control" : how men on Earth aided men in space / Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. -- Men for the Moon : how they were chosen and trained / Robert Sherrod -- The Shakedown cruises : bold steps preceded 'one small step' / Samuel C. Phillips -- Getting it all together : critical tests of the total system / George E. Mueller -- "The Eagle has landed" : a goal attained, men on the Moon / Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. -- Ocean of storms and Fra Mauro : exploring on foot, emplacing automatic laboratories / Charles Conrad, Jr., and Alan B. Shepard, Jr. -- "Houston, we've had a problem" : a crippled bird limps safely home / James A Lovell -- The great voyages of exploration : scientific expeditions return a rich harvest / Harrison H. Schmitt -- The legacy of Apollo : new understanding of ourselves and our world / Homer E. Newell.
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