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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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NASA Technical Note
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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NASA Scientific and Technical Reports
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scientific and Technical Information Division
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Space Simulation
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Category : Space environment
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Space simulation - conference.
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Category : Space environment
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Space simulation - conference.
Return to Earth
Author: Buzz Aldrin
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504026446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression. “We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator,” Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth, remembering Command Module Columbia’s abrupt descent into the gravity of the blue planet. With that splash, Aldrin takes readers on a journey through the human side of the space program, as one of the first two men to land on the moon learns to cope with the pressures of his new public persona. In honest and compelling prose, Aldrin reveals a side of instant fame for which West Point and NASA could never have prepared him. One day a fighter pilot and engineer, the next a cultural hero burdened with the adoration of thousands, Aldrin gives a poignant account of the affair that threatened his marriage, as well as his descent into alcoholism and depression that resulted from trying to be too many things to too many people. He didn’t realize that when he landed on his home planet his odyssey had just begun. As Aldrin puts it, “I traveled to the moon, but the most significant voyage of my life began when I returned from where no man had been before.” Return to Earth is a powerful and moving memoir that exposes the stresses suffered by those in the Apollo program and the price Buzz Aldrin paid when he became an American icon.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504026446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression. “We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator,” Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth, remembering Command Module Columbia’s abrupt descent into the gravity of the blue planet. With that splash, Aldrin takes readers on a journey through the human side of the space program, as one of the first two men to land on the moon learns to cope with the pressures of his new public persona. In honest and compelling prose, Aldrin reveals a side of instant fame for which West Point and NASA could never have prepared him. One day a fighter pilot and engineer, the next a cultural hero burdened with the adoration of thousands, Aldrin gives a poignant account of the affair that threatened his marriage, as well as his descent into alcoholism and depression that resulted from trying to be too many things to too many people. He didn’t realize that when he landed on his home planet his odyssey had just begun. As Aldrin puts it, “I traveled to the moon, but the most significant voyage of my life began when I returned from where no man had been before.” Return to Earth is a powerful and moving memoir that exposes the stresses suffered by those in the Apollo program and the price Buzz Aldrin paid when he became an American icon.
Manned Lunar Landing and Return
Author: Robert Godwin
Publisher: Apogee Books
ISBN: 9781926837420
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Even fifty years later there are still important stories waiting to be told about how humans first walked on another world; such as the one in this book. Take a trip back to the 1950s when the Chance Vought Company, builders of some of America's top fighter aircraft, were quietly figuring out how to get men to the moon using something they called Project MALLAR. It is the story of a team of engineers who built some of the most sophisticated space simulators in the world, where almost all of the Mercury and Gemini astronauts learned the art of spaceflight. This same team produced the first serious plan to use modular spacecraft and a technique called Lunar Orbit Rendezvous to make it possible to get to the moon. This book also reveals how for several years rocket genius Wernher von Braun overlooked his own ideas, before having them reintroduced back to him because of Project MALLAR, and how Vought's fighter aircraft weaved in and out of the Apollo story and then contributed to almost every major airliner in the sky today. Included are rare illustrations, some from recently declassified reports, of the earliest designs for the rockets and spacecraft that led to the greatest technological achievement in human history. In Manned Lunar Landing And Return, Robert Godwin takes the reader back to the time long before President Kennedy made his famous proclamation to reach for the moon and reveals one critical thread in the trail of genius which ended in the Sea of Traquility.
Publisher: Apogee Books
ISBN: 9781926837420
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Even fifty years later there are still important stories waiting to be told about how humans first walked on another world; such as the one in this book. Take a trip back to the 1950s when the Chance Vought Company, builders of some of America's top fighter aircraft, were quietly figuring out how to get men to the moon using something they called Project MALLAR. It is the story of a team of engineers who built some of the most sophisticated space simulators in the world, where almost all of the Mercury and Gemini astronauts learned the art of spaceflight. This same team produced the first serious plan to use modular spacecraft and a technique called Lunar Orbit Rendezvous to make it possible to get to the moon. This book also reveals how for several years rocket genius Wernher von Braun overlooked his own ideas, before having them reintroduced back to him because of Project MALLAR, and how Vought's fighter aircraft weaved in and out of the Apollo story and then contributed to almost every major airliner in the sky today. Included are rare illustrations, some from recently declassified reports, of the earliest designs for the rockets and spacecraft that led to the greatest technological achievement in human history. In Manned Lunar Landing And Return, Robert Godwin takes the reader back to the time long before President Kennedy made his famous proclamation to reach for the moon and reveals one critical thread in the trail of genius which ended in the Sea of Traquility.
The Apollo Spacecraft
Author: Ivan D. Ertel
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Category : Project Apollo
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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Category : Project Apollo
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
NASA Scientific and Technical Reports and Publications for 1969 - A Selected Listing
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Division
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Virtual LM
Author: Scott P. Sullivan
Publisher: Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A pictorial history of the lunar module developed during the Apollo programs offers color photographs and diagrams of everything from switches and panels to the entire module, along with additional text, an operations handbook, activation checklist, and other items on the accompanying CD-ROM.
Publisher: Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A pictorial history of the lunar module developed during the Apollo programs offers color photographs and diagrams of everything from switches and panels to the entire module, along with additional text, an operations handbook, activation checklist, and other items on the accompanying CD-ROM.
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1730
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1730
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