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The Apollo Chronicles
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Author : Brandon R. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
The Apollo Chronicles written by Brandon R. Brown and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with TRANSPORTATION categories.
The moon landing of 1969 stands as an iconic moment for both the United States and humankind. The familiar story focuses on the journey of the brave astronauts, who brought home Moon rocks and startling photographs. But Apollo's full account includes the earthbound engineers, mounds of their crumpled paper, and smoldering metal shards of exploded engines. How exactly did the nation, step by difficult step, take men to the Moon and back? In The Apollo Chronicles, fifty years after the moon landing, author Brandon R. Brown, himself the son of an Apollo engineer, revisits the men and women who toiled behind the lights. He relays the defining twentieth-century project from its roots, bringing the engineers' work and personalities to bright life on the page. Set against the backdrop of a turbulent American decade, the narrative whisks audiences through tense deadlines and technical miracles, from President John F. Kennedy's 1961 challenge to NASA's 1969 lunar triumph, as engineers confronted wave after wave of previously unthinkable challenges. Brown immerses readers in key physical hurdles--from building the world's most powerful rockets to keeping humans alive in the hostile void of space--using language free of acronyms and technical jargon. The book also pulls back from the detailed tasks and asks larger questions. What did we learn about the Moon? And what can this uniquely innovative project teach us today?
The Apollo Chronicles
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Author : Brandon R. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-08
The Apollo Chronicles written by Brandon R. Brown and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-08 with Science categories.
The moon landing of 1969 stands as an iconic moment for both the United States and humankind. The familiar story focuses on the journey of the brave astronauts, who brought home Moon rocks and startling photographs. But Apollo's full account includes the earthbound engineers, mounds of their crumpled paper, and smoldering metal shards of exploded engines. How exactly did the nation, step by difficult step, take men to the Moon and back? In The Apollo Chronicles, fifty years after the moon landing, author Brandon R. Brown, himself the son of an Apollo engineer, revisits the men and women who toiled behind the lights. He relays the defining twentieth-century project from its roots, bringing the engineers' work and personalities to bright life on the page. Set against the backdrop of a turbulent American decade, the narrative whisks audiences through tense deadlines and technical miracles, from President John F. Kennedy's 1961 challenge to NASA's 1969 lunar triumph, as engineers confronted wave after wave of previously unthinkable challenges. Brown immerses readers in key physical hurdles--from building the world's most powerful rockets to keeping humans alive in the hostile void of space--using language free of acronyms and technical jargon. The book also pulls back from the detailed tasks and asks larger questions. What did we learn about the Moon? And what can this uniquely innovative project teach us today?
Moonshots And Snapshots Of Project Apollo
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Author : John Bisney
language : en
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Release Date : 2015
Moonshots And Snapshots Of Project Apollo written by John Bisney and has been published by University of New Mexico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Science categories.
Beginning in 1967, Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo chronicles the program's twelve missions and its two follow-ons, Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
The Apollo Program
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Author : Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-02-23
The Apollo Program written by Charles River Editors and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-23 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Chronicles the Apollo program from beginning to end, profiling Apollo 1, Apollo 11, and Apollo 13 *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents The Apollo space program is the most famous and celebrated in American history, but the first successful landing of men on the Moon during Apollo 11 had complicated roots dating back over a decade, and it also involved one of NASA's most infamous tragedies. Landing on the Moon presented an ideal goal all on its own, but the government's urgency in designing the Apollo program was actually brought about by the Soviet Union, which spent much of the 1950s leaving the United States in its dust (and rocket fuel). In 1957, at a time when people were concerned about communism and nuclear war, many Americans were dismayed by news that the Soviet Union was successfully launching satellites into orbit. Among those concerned was President Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose space program was clearly lagging a few years behind the Soviets' space program. From 1959-1963, the United States worked toward putting satellites and humans into orbit via the Mercury program, but Eisenhower's administration was already designing plans for the Apollo program by 1960, a year before the first Russian orbited the Earth and two years before John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress and asked the nation to -commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.- Given America's inability to even put a man in orbit yet, this seemed like an overly ambitious goal, and it isn't even clear that Kennedy himself believed it possible; after all, he was reluctant to meet NASA Administrator James E. Webb's initial funding requests. As Apollo 11's name suggests, there were actually a number of Apollo missions that came before, many of which included testing the rockets and different orbital and lunar modules in orbit. In fact, it wasn't until Apollo 8 that a manned vehicle was sent towards the Moon and back, and before that mission, the most famous Apollo mission was Apollo 1, albeit for all the wrong reasons. Over the decade, NASA would spend tens of billions on the Apollo missions, the most expensive peacetime program in American history to that point, and even though Apollo 11 was only one of almost 20 Apollo missions, it was certainly the crown jewel. only one of nearly 20 Apollo missions conducted by NASA. And to make Apollo 11 a success, it would take nearly a decade of planning by government officials, hard work by NASA scientists, intense training by the astronauts, and several missions preceding Apollo 11. It also cost over $20 billion, making the Apollo program the most expensive peacetime program in American history at the time. Apollo 12 successfully landed astronauts on the Moon just a few months after Apollo 11's successful mission. Apollo 12 was actually more successful than Apollo 11 from the standpoint of fulfilling the mission objectives, but it was naturally overshadowed since it did not come first. Another reason Apollo 12 is mostly forgotten today can be credited to the dramatic and fateful Apollo 13 mission, which took twists and turns nobody could have predicted when it launched on April 11, 1970. Apollo 13's mission was to land on the Moon near the Fra Mauro highlands, which were hills that had somehow formed in the middle of a huge crater tens of miles wide. The mission was supposed to test for seismic activity and take samples to analyze the crater and try to find an explanation for the formation of the hills. Of course, as is widely known today, Apollo 13 never made the landing. By the end of the Apollo program, NASA had already begun designing and developing the Space Shuttle Program, which would provide reusable vehicles for manned space travel.
Eight Years To The Moon
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Author : Nancy Atkinson
language : en
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-02
Eight Years To The Moon written by Nancy Atkinson and has been published by Page Street Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with Science categories.
A Behind-the-Scenes Look At NASA’s incredible Journey to the Moon Space journalist and insider Nancy Atkinson weaves together the riveting story of NASA’s mission to complete “the greatest adventure on which humankind ever embarked.” This incredible account is a keepsake celebrating some of the most important and dramatic events in modern history. Told through over 60 personal interviews and oral histories, as well as personal photographs, this tribute to the men and women who made the Apollo 11 mission a reality chronicles the highs and lows that accompanied the race to the Moon: the devastating flash fire that killed the crew of Apollo 1; the awe of those who saw their years-in-the-making contributions to space exploration blast off from Cape Canaveral; the knuckle-biting descent of Apollo 11 to the lunar surface; a near-catastrophic event on the crew’s flight home; the infectious excitement and jubilation across the world after the astronauts returned safely to Earth. These little-known stories of the dedicated engineers, mathematicians and scientists in the 1960s reveal the “hows” of the Apollo missions and bring to life the wonder and excitement of humanity’s first steps on the Moon.
A Man On The Moon
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Author : Andrew Chaikin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
A Man On The Moon written by Andrew Chaikin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Astronauts categories.
On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when two Americans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon. Now the greatest event of the twentieth century is magnificently retold through the eyes and ears of the people who were there. Based on the interviews with twenty-three moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, journalist Andrew Chaikin conveys every aspect of the missions with breathtaking immediacy: from the rush of liftoff, to the heart-stopping lunar touchdown, to the final hurdle of reentry.
Proof Of Extraterrestrial Intelligence The Cape Canaveral Apollo Program Chronicles
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Author : Jim Oglesby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-01-19
Proof Of Extraterrestrial Intelligence The Cape Canaveral Apollo Program Chronicles written by Jim Oglesby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-19 with categories.
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress the dramatic and ambitious goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth before the end of the decade. That fantastic goal came about, but something unexpected also took place, something definitive, and even more fantastic than traveling to the Moon and back-the monitoring of the Apollo Program by Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Apollo Dreams
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Author : Syd Gilmore
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-10-22
Apollo Dreams written by Syd Gilmore and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-22 with categories.
"Houston, we have a problem." April 11, 1970 is a day that will live in infamy! The fateful Apollo 13 lunar mission launches; the world wakes to learn The Beatles have broken up; and a precocious boy named Billy celebrates his 9th birthday. Escape with Billy into his fantasy adventures as Captain Apollo, commander of the starship USS Constellation One - otherwise known as the family clothes dryer. Evil is afoot in the universe, where he fights intergalactic hitmen, takes on the ruthless gangster Mack the Black, and must rescue the beautiful Empress Lucinda from her evil clutches. Meanwhile, in the "real world," Billy's older brother, Sean, is acting strange, the class bully makes it his personal goal to torment Billy every chance he gets, and to top if all off, Billy and Sean are both forced to make choices to protect the ones they love. Fantasy and reality collide when the Apollo space mission goes terribly wrong, Captain Apollo must fight for his life, and one nerdy little kid struggles to survive in both worlds.
The Apollo Adventure
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Author : Jeffrey Kluger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Apollo Adventure written by Jeffrey Kluger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In April 1970, Jim Lovell and his fellow astronauts spent a harrowing four days trapped in space, after a mysterious explosion crippled their spacecraft. Universal Pictures brings this exciting exploit to the screen with the release of Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks. This book chronicles the making of the film and provides a dazzling journey through the entire Apollo space program. Foreword by Ron Howard, who directed the film. Illustrations.
Before This Decade Is Out
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Author : Glen E. Swanson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-03-31
Before This Decade Is Out written by Glen E. Swanson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A fascinating collection of oral histories surrounding the Saturn/Apollo program chronicles the nation's successful ten-year vault for the moon. Winner of the 1999 Pendleton Prize. Reprint.