Before This Decade Is Out (Dover Books on Astronomy) - Softcover

Swanson, Glen E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486483835 ISBN 13: 9780486483832

Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., 2012

Inhaltsangabe

On July 24, 1969, the astronauts of Apollo XI splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, having triumphantly answered John F. Kennedy's 1961 challenge to land an American on the moon "before this decade is out." Behind their success lay the cooperative efforts of political leaders, engineers, scientists, administrators, and other astronauts. These fascinating oral histories recount the inside story of the lunar landing project, recapturing the excitement, daring, and idealism of the Apollo program.
Drawn from hundreds of interviews from the NASA archives, the Johnson Space Center, and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, this volume features the recollections of fourteen program participants. Commenters include NASA administrators James Webb and Thomas O. Paine; Wernher von Braun, architect of the Saturn V rocket; spacecraft designer Maxime A. Faget; and astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Charles Duke. Introductory material provides background on the Apollo program, and nearly seventy black-and-white images illustrate the captivating first-person accounts of history in the making.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Glen E. Swanson is a historian at Johnson Space Center in Houston. He is also the editor of Countdown, a publication devoted to the space shuttle, and Quest, a periodical on the history of space flight.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0486483835
• ISBN 13: 9780486483832
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Soc. Agr. La Raia Ss; http://www.la-raia.it; ; Strada Monterotondo, 79; Novi Ligure; 15067; Italien