Author: Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lunar photography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Apollo 8 observations of lunar topography.
Analysis of Apollo 8
Author: Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lunar photography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Apollo 8 observations of lunar topography.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lunar photography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Apollo 8 observations of lunar topography.
Apollo 8
Author: Jeffrey Kluger
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1627798315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. Written with all the color and verve of the best narrative non-fiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut’s homes, from the test labs to the launch pad. The race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. Then, on Christmas Eve, a nation that has suffered a horrendous year of assassinations and war is heartened by an inspiring message from the trio of astronauts in lunar orbit. And when the mission is over—after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry through the earth’s atmosphere following a flight to deep space—the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach. The full story of Apollo 8 has never been told, and only Jeffrey Kluger—Jim Lovell’s co-author on their bestselling book about Apollo 13—can do it justice. Here is the tale of a mission that was both a calculated risk and a wild crapshoot, a stirring account of how three American heroes forever changed our view of the home planet.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1627798315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. Written with all the color and verve of the best narrative non-fiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut’s homes, from the test labs to the launch pad. The race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. Then, on Christmas Eve, a nation that has suffered a horrendous year of assassinations and war is heartened by an inspiring message from the trio of astronauts in lunar orbit. And when the mission is over—after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry through the earth’s atmosphere following a flight to deep space—the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach. The full story of Apollo 8 has never been told, and only Jeffrey Kluger—Jim Lovell’s co-author on their bestselling book about Apollo 13—can do it justice. Here is the tale of a mission that was both a calculated risk and a wild crapshoot, a stirring account of how three American heroes forever changed our view of the home planet.
Analysis of Apollo 8
Author: Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lunar photography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Apollo 8 observations of lunar topography.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lunar photography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Apollo 8 observations of lunar topography.
Analysis of Apollo 8
Author: États-Unis. Manned spacecraft center
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Genesis
Author: Robert Zimmerman
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 9780440235569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
An account of the first manned space mission to leave Earth's orbit describes the odyssey of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders in a study of a seminal mission that transformed human concepts of space exploration.
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 9780440235569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
An account of the first manned space mission to leave Earth's orbit describes the odyssey of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders in a study of a seminal mission that transformed human concepts of space exploration.
Analysis of Apollo 8 Photography and Visual Observations
Author: Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Manned space flight
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manned space flight
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Analysis of Apollo 8
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Manned space flight
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manned space flight
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Lunar Sourcebook
Author: Grant Heiken
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521334440
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The only work to date to collect data gathered during the American and Soviet missions in an accessible and complete reference of current scientific and technical information about the Moon.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521334440
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The only work to date to collect data gathered during the American and Soviet missions in an accessible and complete reference of current scientific and technical information about the Moon.
Apollo 8: Man Around the Moon
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Office of Public Affairs
Publisher:
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Category : Moon
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moon
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Analysis of Apollo 8
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Division
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
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