Moon Dust
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Moondust
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Author : Andrew Smith
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-04-04
Moondust written by Andrew Smith and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-04 with Science categories.
In 1999, Andrew Smith was interviewing Charlie Duke, astronaut and moon walker, for the Sunday Times. During the course of the interview, which took place at Duke's Texan home, the telephone rang and Charlie left the room to answer it. When he returned, some twenty minutes later, he seemed visibly upset. It seemed that he'd just heard that, the previous day, one of his fellow moon walkers, the astronaut Pete Conrad, had died. The more Charlie spoke the more Andrew realised that his grief was something more than the mere fact of losing a friend. 'Now theres only nine of us,' he said. Only nine. Which meant that, one day not long from now, there would be none, and when that day came, no one on earth would have known the giddy thrill of gazing back at us from the surface of the moon. The thought shocked Andrew, and still does. Moondust is his attempt to understand why. The Apollo moon programme has been called the last optimistic act of the 20th Century. Over a strange three year period between 1969 and 1972, twelve men made the longest and most eccentric of all journeys, and all were indelibly marked by it. In Moondust Andrew sets out to interview all the remaining astronauts who walked on the moon, and to find out how their lives were changed for ever by what had happened. 'Where do you go after you've been to the moon?' In addition to this question that would prove hugely troubling to many of the returned astronauts, they also had to deal with the fantasies of faceless millions at their backs, for this was the first truly global media event. The walkers would forever be caught between the gravitational pull of the moon and the earth's collective dreaming.
The Impact Of Lunar Dust On Human Exploration
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Author : Joel S. Levine
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-01-12
The Impact Of Lunar Dust On Human Exploration written by Joel S. Levine and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with Science categories.
When the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, they made a very important discovery. During their landing on the surface of the Moon, the exhaust gases released from the Lunar Module landing rockets caused large amounts of surface dust to move into the thin lunar atmosphere, causing obscuration of the lunar surface. Once they landed, they found that the surface of the Moon was covered with several inches of very fine, tiny particles composed of sharp, glassy material. The lunar dust stuck to everything it came in contact with, and, once on the lunar surface, the dust eroded their spacesuits, caused overheating on equipment and instrumentation, compromised seals on their spacesuits and on lunar sample collecting boxes, irritated their eyes and lungs, and generally coated everything very efficiently. On the return to Earth in the Apollo Command Module, lunar dust inadvertently brought aboard floated freely in their cabin causing problems. Now, 50 years later, humans will return to the Moon in the Artemis Program, as early as 2024. This book summarizes what we know about lunar dust, its structure and chemical composition, its impact on human health, and how to reduce/mitigate its effects on future human exploration. The four dozen contributors to the 14 chapters in the book are planetary scientists, engineers, mission planners, medical researchers and physicians from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), as well as universities and industry from the United States, Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden.
A Fall Of Moondust
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Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
A Fall Of Moondust written by Arthur Charles Clarke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Science fiction categories.
A story of the future, about a specially designed air vessel that sinks with its human cargo into a sea of dust in one of the craters of the moon.
Turning Dust To Gold
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Author : Haym Benaroya
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2016-05-31
Turning Dust To Gold written by Haym Benaroya and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-31 with Science categories.
The expansion of our civilization to the Moon and beyond is now within our reach, technically, intellectually and financially. Apollo was not our last foray into the Solar System and already science fiction is finding it difficult to keep ahead of science and engineering fact. In 1807, few people anticipated the Wright Brothers’ human flight a hundred years later. In 1869, only science fiction writers would have suggested landing people on the Moon in 1969. Similarly, other great inventions in mechanics and in electronics were not envisaged and therefore the technologies to which those inventions gave birth were only foreseen by a tiny group of visionaries.
Moondust
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Author : Andrew Smith
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-06-27
Moondust written by Andrew Smith and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A revised and updated edition of the classic work to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing 'It left me spellbound ... belongs to the same tradition as Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff' Sunday Times 'Fascinating. A wonderful book' David Bowie Spellbinding ... A wonderful collective biography written with deftness, compassion and humour' Observer ________________________ The Apollo Moon Programme has been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth century. In Moondust, Andrew Smith set out to find and interview the nine remaining Moonwalkers in order to learn how their lives, and ours, were irrevocably changed by this surreal expedition. On the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing, Smith's powerful and gripping account of the most courageous adventure of the last century is re-released with a new chapter, detailing his fascinating interactions with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Edgar Mitchell and Alan Bean in the years since publication. With thought-provoking meditations on the dramatic recent upswing in cosmic exploration, including astonishing encounters with the would-be astronaut-settlers of the Mars One project and the scientists leading the search for life in our solar system, this is an indispensable update to the definitive classic. ________________________ 'Fascinating and disturbing. We know what happened inside the Apollo spacecraft, but what went on inside the astronauts' minds? Did any of them really recover from their strange journey? Extremely thought-provoking' J.G. Ballard
Lunar Sourcebook
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Author : Grant Heiken
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1991-04-26
Lunar Sourcebook written by Grant Heiken and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-04-26 with Science categories.
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.
Moon Dust
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Author : Cathryn McNamee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Moon Dust written by Cathryn McNamee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Project Moon Dust
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Author : Kevin D. Randle
language : en
Publisher: Avon
Release Date : 1999-06-01
Project Moon Dust written by Kevin D. Randle and has been published by Avon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
"We have been told that the U.S. Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years and never found any information to suggest they were real, that they posed a threat to the United States, or that they were from other solar systems. That is what we were told. But such is not the case." In 1953, a classified government was proposed that would deal with the recovery of "returning space debris" launched from other nations. But why did the Air Force consider such a program necessary when Sputnik--the first Soviet satellite--would not be launched until four years later? Since the initiation of the top secret Project Moon Dust, the government--and specifically the USAF--has engaged in continuous covert yet highly documented official investigations into UFO phenomena, which have included often dangerous interfaces with extraterrestrial crafts in the skies above our nation, and supersonic pursuits that have put pilots'' lives at risk; pursuits that were observed by many reliable eyewitnesses. The co-author of UFO Crash at Roswell--the definitive account of America's most famous extraterrestrial encounter--Air Force Reserve Captain Kevin D. Randle uses his unique access to classified military documents to go deep inside the continuing cover-up and bring out the facts: The real contents of the infamous Project Blue Book files The recorded truth about the fateful summer of 1952--when a record number of unexplained sightings led to the government's creation of Moon Dust The Belgium sightings of 1990--one of the most extraordinary events of our age The covert role of the CIA in UFO research The truth vs. the official lies about the Kelly-Hopkinville creature report, the Cash-Landrum injury case, the Benwaters encounter, and, of course, Roswell.
Moon Dust
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Author : Richard L. G. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Moon Dust written by Richard L. G. Sullivan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Moon Dust
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Author : Alica W. Platt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Moon Dust written by Alica W. Platt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.