Missions to the Moon
Welbeck (Verlag)
978-1-78739-177-2 (ISBN)
Full of personal insights and accounts of the long journey to getting a man on the moon, Missions to the Moon is the perfect companion for anyone with a love of space travel, the moon landings, or NASA, CNSA, RFSA, and the rest of the world's space programs.
With dozens of stunning photographs and fascinating memorabilia – such as Apollo 11 Mission Reports and Flight Director's Logs – track the birth of the space race and Yuri Gagarin's first space flight, to the many successes and failures of the Apollo mission, all the way to that boots-on-the-ground moment we have come to know so well. Uniquely complemented by ground-breaking digital technology you can become fully immersed in this interactive story of mankind's ongoing journey into the final frontier.
Rod Pyle is a space author, journalist and historian who has authored 15 books on space history, exploration and development for major publishers in seven languages. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the National Space Society's quarterly print magazine Ad Astra, and his frequent articles have appeared in Space.com, LiveScience, Futurity, the International Business Times, Popular Science, Caltech's E&S magazine, and WIRED. Rod has written extensively for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech.
Man and Moon • Vengeance Takes Flight • Sleeping Under a Red Moon • Aiming for the Moon • How to go to the Moon • Soviet Disasters • A Most Complex Machine • The Flight of the Phoenix • Into the Void • Christmas in Space • Flying to the Moon • Dress Rehearsals • Preparing for the Big One • The Voyage of Apollo 11 • 'Contact Light!' • Magnificent Desolation • Laughs From Luna: Apollo 12 • A Successful Failure: Apollo 13 • Shepard Returns • The Lunar Rover • The Genesis Rock • Landing in the Lunar Highlands • Final Moments: Apollo 17 • The Legacy of Apollo • Europe Returns to Space • Asia Ascendant • Moonbase.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.10.2018 |
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| Vorwort | Gene Kranz |
| Zusatzinfo | 200 clr and b&w photos and illus |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 250 x 286 mm |
| Gewicht | 1280 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78739-177-9 / 1787391779 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78739-177-2 / 9781787391772 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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