First On The Moon: A Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.; Farmer; Gene; Hamblin, Dora Jane

Photri-Microstock (front cover and rear cover photograhy); Weinberg, Mark (cover design)

Verlag: Barnes & Noble Books, New York

Beschreibung

New condition silver gray boards with gold spine lettering contained in a new condition color photographic dust jacket. Includes Authors' Dedication; List of Illustrations; Glossary; Prologue: Quiet Here in Mission Control; L'envoi; Acknowledgments; and Notes. Illustrated with three sections of black-and-white photographs. "First On the Moon. The sound of the words themselves cannot convey their full meaning, the weight of wonder that they bear. The time, money, lives, will, knowledge -- the total effort that went into putting man on the moon is beyond measurement. First On the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. is the exclusive story of Apollo 11 and the always thrilling and historic personal experiences of the three astronauts who put man on the moon. It is a voyage in every sense of the word -- through time, from President Kennedy's fateful pronouncement on May 25, 1961, that the United States would put man on the moon before the decade was out, and through space, with Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. First On the Moon is history, but it is also the chronicle of all those whoo unite to meet the unspoken challenge posed by the unknown. It is an exclusive and official account, the way the voyage was, as seen by the men who experienced it. The flight is excitingly and thoroughly documented, by interweaving the astronauts' own thoughts and words with the recorded transcript with Houston. The flight of Apollo 11 is of course the essence of First On the Moon and, although it is always a personal account, at the same time the astronauts were well aware that they acted as representatives of all mankind. In addition, co-authors Life senior editor Gene Farmer and Life staff writer Dora Jane Hamblin spent many months living with the astronauts and their families. Faithfully recording the atmosphere in the astronauts' homes during the flight. From the dramatic liftoff and earth orbit through the operation known as translunar injection, then transposition and docking -- each mechanized and technical operation becomes a human exploit rivaling the most thrilling moments in the tales told by H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin were chosen to go on the most thrilling of all voyages, but the enterprise was not theirs and theirs alone. Many thousands of scientists, engineering and industrial people were behind them, including eight astronauts who did not live to see the day. The complete story is here, and her exclusively. First On the Moon -- written with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin -- is the astronauts' own book; it tells the story of one of mankind's greatest undertakings." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. 0. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006615

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Titel: First On The Moon: A Voyage With Neil ...

Verlag: Barnes & Noble Books, New York

Einband: Hardcover

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