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Apollo and America's Moon Landing Program: Apollo 1 Tragedy (Grissom, White, and Chaffee) Apollo 204 Pad Fire, Complete Review Board Report, Technical Appendix Material, and Medical Analysis Panel

Independently published 2017/10/31 USD11.99

Incorporating a complete reproduction of the final review board report, this authoritative compilation of official NASA documents provides unique insights into NASA s first major tragedy, the Apollo 1 launch pad fire.

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View From Above: An Astronaut Photographs the World

National Geographic 2017-10-03 USD40.00

A NASA astronaut and distinguished space photographer who spent more than seven months off the planet presents the infinite wonder of his astonishing aerial images of Earth, along with captivating tales of life at the edge of the atmosphere.

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Moonshots: 50 Years of NASA Space Exploration Seen through Hasselblad Cameras

Voyageur Press 2017/10/1 USD48.99

Moonshots presents stunning photos of space and Earth from NASA's archives - taken by Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and ISS astronauts using high resolution Hasselblad cameras.

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Project Apollo: The Moon Landings, 1968-1972 (America in Space)

Schiffer Pub Ltd 2017/9/28 USD19.99

The moon landing remains the most astonishing and impressive accomplishment of manned space travel to this day. In July 1969, just eight years after President John F. Kennedy announced the bold plan, the first astronaut set foot on another celestial body.

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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

Thorndike Pr 2017/9/20 USD31.99

Recounts the bold but dangerous mission to secure America's position as the first nation to reach the moon, revealing the dangers endured by its crew and the ways the mission brought renewal to a country ravaged by assassinations and war.

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Apollo: The extraordinary visual history of the iconic space programme

Wildfire 2017/9/7 USD10.05

Explore the iconic Apollo space missions and moon landings through these stunning infographics and data visualisations. If you like space, this book is for you. The Apollo Program ran from 1961 until 1972, and marks one of the greatest accomplishments in all of human endeavour - man walking on the moon.

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FIRING A ROCKET: STORIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROCKET ENGINES FOR THE SATURN LAUNCH VEHICLES AND THE LUNAR MODULE AS VIEWED FROM THE TRENCHES

Independently published 2017/9/6 USD9.50

Today we stand on the threshold of human flights to Mars' yet another giant leap from that one small step onto the moon. But Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride would have never made history, and humankind would not have touched the stars, if not for the men and women on the ground who lit the fuse that launched the first rockets.

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Apollo and America's Moon Landing Program: Apollo Program Summary Report (April 1975) - Full Details of the Flight Program, Science, Vehicle Performance, Mission Operations, Biomedical, Spacecraft

Independently published 2017/8/31 2250円

This comprehensive official NASA history document is the authoritative post-program summary document for the Apollo moon landing project, produced in 1975 by the Johnson Space Center (JSC). From the Foreword: "This report is intended to summarize the major activities of Apollo and to provide sources of reference for those who desire to pursue any portion to a greater depth."

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Assembling and Supplying the ISS: The Space Shuttle Fulfills Its Mission

Springer 2017-08-02 USD49.99

The creation and utilization of the International Space Station (ISS) is a milestone in space exploration. But without the Space Shuttle, it would have remained an impossible dream.

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Outposts on the Frontier: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations (Outward Odyssey: a People's History of Spaceflight)

Univ of Nebraska Pr 2017/8/1 USD37.95

The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s.

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The Space Shuttle Program: Technologies and Accomplishments

Springer 2017-06-26 USD49.57

This book tells the story of the Space Shuttle in its many different roles as orbital launch platform, orbital workshop, and science and technology laboratory. It focuses on the technology designed and developed to support the missions of the Space Shuttle program.

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NASA Mercury - 1956 to 1963 (all models): An insight into the design and engineering of Project Mercury

Haynes Publishing UK 2017/6/15 USD36.95

Full coverage of the design, engineering, development and flight operations of NASA's Mercury spacecraft, which in addition to several unmanned tests supported two piloted ballistic sub-orbital flights in 1961 and four piloted orbital flights between 1962 and 1963.

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Hello, Is This Planet Earth?: My View from the International Space Station

Little, Brown and Company 2017-06-06 USD26.00

The #1 international bestseller: An astronaut's tour of our planet from the heavens, featuring 150 mesmerizing photographs (with commentary) from the International Space Station One of Space.com's Best Space Photography Books!

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Space Shuttle: Developing an Icon 1972-2013

Crecy Pub 2017/2/27 USD169.95

During 30 years and 135 missions, the U.S. space shuttle carried more crewmembers to orbit than all other launch systems, from all other countries combined, and carried more than 4.5 million pounds of payload to orbit.

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The Final Mission: Preserving NASA's Apollo Sites

University Press of Florida 2017/02/07 USD34.95

Deep within the rugged mountains of Southern California and rising above the desert landscape of Southern New Mexico are the once-majestic historic rocket test stands and facilities that helped send humans to the moon for the first time in 1969. Many of these are abandoned. Countless others across the American landscape and on the lunar surface have become ruins, silent and largely forgotten. The Final Mission explores the critical sites linked to space exploration and calls for their urgent preservation.

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Astronaut: 1961 onwards (all roles and nationalities) (Owners' Workshop Manual)

Haynes Publishing UK 2017/2/1 USD33.26

The book begins with early ideas about astronauts in science fiction and film portrayals of the role. It goes on to cover recruitment and the application process to become an astronaut with NASA and ESA, and the qualifications and fitness required for various astronaut roles.

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Wernher von Braun's 1969 Manned Mars Mission Plans after Apollo and the Boeing 1968 Integrated Manned Interplanetary Nuclear Spacecraft Concept Definition Study

Independently published 2017/1/13 USD10.99

With the success of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, Wernher von Braun presented an ambitious plan for manned missions to Mars as soon as the 1980s to the Space Task Group for consideration by President Richard Nixon as the next step in America's space program.

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Apollo Pilot: The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)

University of Nebraska Press 2017/01/01 USD24.95

In October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7. The first manned mission in the Apollo program and the first manned flight after a fire during a launch pad test killed three astronauts in early 1967, Apollo 7 helped restart NASA’s manned-spaceflight program.

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Rocket Propulsion Elements

Wiley 2016/12/27 USD150.00

The recent upsurge in global government and private spending and in space flight events has resulted in many novel applications of rocket propulsion technology. Rocket Propulsion Elements remains the definitive guide to the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to essential concepts and applications.

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Apollo's Computers

Independently published 2016/12/26 USD7.99

This book discusses the various computer used in support of the Apollo lunar missions of the 1960's-1970's. We'll discuss the legendary Apollo Guidance Computer and the other flight computers in the Saturn-V rocket itself.

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

William Morrow Paperbacks 2016/12/06 USD12.31

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.

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Project Apollo: The Early Years, 1961-1967 (America in Space Series)

Schiffer 2016/10/28 USD19.99

In May 1961, American president John F. Kennedy committed the nation to carrying out a manned landing on the moon before the end of the decade. This volume covers the early years of the Apollo program (1960-1967), still the most significant space effort in the history of mankind. In a very short time, NASA developed the mighty Saturn rockets, the Apollo spacecraft, and the lunar lander. This breathtaking development came at a cost, however, as in 1967 astronauts Virgil Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Edward White lost their lives during a test. Ten months after the catastrophe, however, the Saturn V, America’s moon rocket, made its triumphal unmanned maiden flight. After that, just twenty more months would pass before man set foot on another celestial body for the first time.

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Apollo 1 and the Space Shuttle Challenger: The History of Nasa’s Two Most Notorious Disasters

Createspace Independent Pub 2016/8/1 USD9.99

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.

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NASA Saturn V 1967-1973 (Apollo 4 to Apollo 17 & Skylab) (Owners' Workshop Manual)

Haynes Publishing UK 2016/08/01 USD28.03

Few launch vehicles are as iconic and distinctive as NASA's behemoth rocket, the Saturn V, and none left such a lasting impression on those who watched it ascend. Developed with the specific brief to send humans to the Moon, it pushed rocketry to new scales. Its greatest triumph is that it achieved its goal repeatedly with an enviable record of mission success. Haynes' Saturn V Manual tells the story of this magnificent and hugely powerful machine. It explains how each of the vehicle's three stages worked; Boeing's S-IC first stage with a power output as great as the UK's peak electricity consumption, North American Aviation's S-II troubled second stage, Douglas's workhorse S-IVB third stage with its instrument unit brain - as much a spacecraft as a rocket. From the decision to build it to the operation of its engines' valves and pumps, this lavishly illustrated and deeply informative book offers a deeper appreciation of the amazing Saturn V.

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Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom

Purdue University Press 2016/06/15 USD22.51

Unlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs―save for an account of his role in the Gemini program―before the tragic launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, which took his life and those of Edward White and Roger Chaffee. The international prestige of winning the Moon Race cannot be understated, and Grissom played a pivotal and enduring role in securing that legacy for the United States. Indeed, Grissom was first and foremost a Cold Warrior, a member of the first group of Mercury astronauts whose goal it was to beat the Soviet Union to the moon.

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Moon Manual (Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual)

Haynes Publishing UK 2016/4/15 USD28.86

There is renewed interest in the Moon in recent years, with the news that a Chinese lunar rover landed on the Moon in January 2014, and NASA announcing that it is looking for private partners to land a robot on the Moon's surface, as the first step in a programme to exploit the commercial opportunities offered by the Moon.

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No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon

National Geographic 2016-04-05 USD22.00

Beloved American hero and astronaut Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered both in outer space and on earth through his event-filled life, in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation.

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NASA Kennedy Space Center (Images of Modern America)

Arcadia Publishing 2016/02/15 USD17.65

From Bumper V-2 rocket launches in 1950 to the launch of the Orion spacecraft atop a Delta IV rocket in 2014, NASAs Kennedy Space Center has served as the nations portal to outer space for over 60 years. Images of Modern America: NASA Kennedy Space Center provides a fascinating look at the evolution of spacecraft technology and vintage images of Floridas scenic Merritt Island,

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Project Gemini: America in Space Series

Schiffer 2016/02/15 USD13.64

In just two-and-a-half years, beginning in 1964, two unmanned and ten manned flights took place in the Gemini program. This program was the turning point in the space race with the USSR; from then on the Americans took the lead. Flights lasting two weeks, into the Van Allen Belt, the first extravehicular activities, rendezvous maneuvers and docking with other spacecraft―all of this was achieved by Gemini, paving the way for the more demanding moon landing program. It was not all success, however. Like almost every significant undertaking, Project Gemini also had its dramas and tragedies. All Project Gemini missions are discussed, including details on allcraft and the astronauts involved. Superb color, archival images,cutaways and plans are also included.

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Project Mercury: America in Space Series

Schiffer 2016/02/02 USD17.44

Project Mercury was America's entry into the manned spaceflight program. When the program began in 1958, the Soviet Union was far ahead of the US in the race for supremacy in space. With immense effort, and in record time, NASA, the newly created spaceflight organization, developed a space transport system with orbital capsule and booster rockets. They used it to send Alan Shepard on a first suborbital "jump" into space in May 1961, and in February 1962 to make John Glenn the first American astronaut to orbit the earth. Nevertheless, the Americans were beaten by the Soviets in the race to put the first man into space. Project Mercury was, however, the foundation for NASA's later success in the race to the moon. All Project Mercury missions are discussed, including details on all craft and the astronauts involved. Superb color, archival images, cutaways and plans are also included.

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International Space Station: An insight into the history, development, collaboration, production and role of the permanently manned earth-orbiting complex (Owners' Workshop Manual)

Haynes Publishing UK 2016/2/1 USD36.95

The International Space Station (ISS) is a permanently manned earth-orbiting complex where astronauts carry out research into a wide range of scientific activities. It comprises modules built in the USA, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada.

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Mission Control: Inventing the Groundwork of Spaceflight

University Press of Florida 2015/10/13 USD24.95

In Mission Control, Michael Johnson explores the famous Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, and the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany?each a strategically designed micro-environment responsible for the operation of spacecraft and the safety of passengers. He explains the motivations behind the location of each center and their intricate design. He shows how the robotic spaceflight missions overseen in Pasadena and Darmstadt set these centers apart from Houston, and compares the tracking networks used for different types of spacecraft.

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Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo: A Rare Photographic History

University of New Mexico Press 2015/09/15 USD38.13

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 authors again draw from rarely seen NASA, industry, and news media images, taking readers to the Moon, on months-long odysseys above Earth, and finally on the first international manned space flight in 1975.

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Thirty Years Together: A Chronology of U.S.-Soviet Space Cooperation

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2015/09/01 USD24.99

A chronology of U.S.-Soviet cooperation in space travel during the first 3 decades of human spaceflight (1961-1992) that tracks both successful and unsuccessful attempts at cooperative programs. For example, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) is covered, but so too are discussions of Salyut-Shuttle missions, which ultimately did not occur. This expanded edition includes NASA press releases relating to ASTP as well as other U-S.-Soviet space efforts since then, such as Mir-Shuttle missions and tests of a prototype Soviet Mars rover, since then. Includes a bibliography drawn to all space cooperation and topics relevant to the discussion thereof.

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Skylab 1 & 2: The NASA Mission Reports

Apogee Books 2015/08/11 USD29.99

A chronology of U.S.-Soviet cooperation in space travel during the first 3 decades of human spaceflight (1961-1992) that tracks both successful and unsuccessful attempts at cooperative programs. For example, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) is covered, but so too are discussions of Salyut-Shuttle missions, which ultimately did not occur. This expanded edition includes NASA press releases relating to ASTP as well as other U-S.-Soviet space efforts since then, such as Mir-Shuttle missions and tests of a prototype Soviet Mars rover, since then. Includes a bibliography drawn to all space cooperation and topics relevant to the discussion thereof.

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Norman Mailer: Moonfire, The Epic Journey of Apollo 11

Taschen 2015/07/30 USD17.66

It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, after a decade of tests and training, supported by a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, and with a budget of billions, the most powerful rocket ever launched brought Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the moon.

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Countdown to a Moon Launch: Preparing Apollo for Its Historic Journey

Springer 2015/07/10 USD44.99

Thousands of workers labored at Kennedy Space Center around the clock, seven days a week, for half a year to prepare for the liftoff of Apollo 11. This is the story of what went on during those hectic six months. Countdown to a Moon Launch provides an in-depth look at the carefully choreographed workflow for an Apollo mission at KSC. Using the Apollo 11 mission as an example, readers will learn what went on day by day to transform partially completed stages and crates of parts into a ready-to-fly Saturn V. Firsthand accounts of launch pad accidents, near misses, suspected sabotage, and last-minute changes to hardware are told by more than 70 NASA employees and its contractors. A companion to Rocket Ranch, it includes many diagrams and photographs, some never before published, to illustrate all aspects of the process. NASA's groundbreaking use of computers for testing and advanced management techniques are also covered in detail.

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Rocket Ranch: The Nuts and Bolts of the Apollo Moon Program at Kennedy Space Center (Springer Praxis Books) 2015th Edition

Springer; 2015 edition 2015/06/26 USD37.99

Jonathan Ward takes the reader deep into the facilities at Kennedy Space Center to describe NASA’s first computer systems used for spacecraft and rocket checkout and explain how tests and launches proceeded. Descriptions of early operations include a harrowing account of the heroic efforts of pad workers during the Apollo 1 fire. A companion to the author’s book Countdown to a Moon Launch: Preparing Apollo for Its Historic Journey, this explores every facet of the facilities that served as the base for the Apollo/Saturn missions. Hundreds of illustrations complement the firsthand accounts of more than 70 Apollo program managers and engineers.

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Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare Photographic History

University of New Mexico Press 2015/06/01 USD33.99

This is the story of the people and events of Projects Mercury and Gemini, told through hundreds of unpublished and rare color and black-and-white photographs. Unlike other publications, which have illustrated the Space Race with well-known and easily accessible images, this history draws from the authors' private library of more than 125,000 high-resolution photos of the first two U.S. manned space programs from 1961 to 1966.

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Rocket Manual - 1942 onwards: An insight into the development and technology of space rockets and satellite launchers (Owners' Workshop Manual)

Haynes Publishing UK 2015/01/20 USD9.39

The Rocket Manual tells the story of rocket motors, how they were first developed, how they work, what they are used for and how they are operated. It also explains the origin and operating record of satellite launchers around the world. Rocket motors large and small are listed and explained, including small motors used to push satellites and spacecraft into different orbits, throttleable rockets for controlling spacecraft descending to the Moon and the surfaces of other planets, restartable motors for adjusting orbits and reusable motors such as those developed for the Shuttle.

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NASA Gemini 1965-1966, Owners' Workshop Manual

Haynes Publishing UK 2015/01/01 USD28.55

The Gemini space flight program is all but forgotten, having been eclipsed by the spectacular drama and success of the Apollo flights to the Moon. Neither was it a pioneer, coming after the heroic and pathfinding Mercury project. But whereas Mercury was derided as 'spam-in-a-can' and Apollo was a truck towing a lunar lander, the Gemini spacecraft was an agile flying machine for fighter pilots. Initially called the Mercury Mark II, it gave the United States the tool it needed to learn how to fly in space, and in so doing it prepared the country's space agency, NASA, to set off for the Moon.

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Soyuz Owners' Workshop Manual: 1967 onwards (all models) - An insight into Russia's flagship spacecraft, from Moon missions to the International Space Station

Haynes Publishing UK 2014/10/01 USD23.68

The Soyuz spacecraft played a major role in Russia's plans for a manned landing on the Moon and several test models were flown at the height of the 'space race'. Originally designed for circumlunar flight, Soyuz has been the mainstay of Russia's space program.

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Michoud Assembly Facility (Images of America)

Arcadia Publishing 2014/09/15 USD18.30

After an auspicious beginning as a royal land grant from French king Louis XV to a wealthy French citizen of New Orleans in 1763, the land Michoud Assembly Facility occupies remained in private ownership until 1940, when it was sold to the US government. Prior to World War II, the site was used to grow sugar, hunt muskrat, and build railroad and telephone lines. In 1941, the worlds largest industrial site was built, covering 43 acres of unobstructed, low-humidity, air-cooled space under one roof to construct C-46 cargo planes. The Korean War required the assembly of Sherman and Patton tanks there, while the space race compelled the design and assembly of the colossal Saturn I, IB, and V rocket boosters for the Apollo program that reported directly to Dr. Wernher von Braun. The 1970s saw the fabrication of the enormous external tank for the Space Shuttle program. Today, Michoud Assembly Facility continues to support the US space program by building major components for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (or MPCV).

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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight

Thomas Dunne Books 2014/07/08 USD22.60

Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero, history's most famous space traveler, and the first man to walk on the moon. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time is the definitive story of Neil's life of flight he shared for five decades with a trusted friend - Jay Barbree.

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How to Find the Apollo Landing Sites

Springer 2014/06/30 USD34.99

This book is for anyone who wants to be able to connect the history of lunar exploration to the Moon visible above. It addresses what Apollo equipment and experiments were left behind and what the Apollo landings sites look like now. Each Apollo mission is examined in detail, with photos that progressively zoom-in to guide the reader in locating the Apollo landing sites. Guided by official NASA photographs from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the original Apollo missions, the reader can view the Moon with a new appreciation of the accomplishment of landing astronauts on its surface. Countless people have gazed at the Moon in the night sky knowing the successes of the Apollo Program in landing men on the Moon. After the information in this guide, casual and serious observers can actually point out where the Apollo landings occurred as well as knowing why those sites were chosen.

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N-1: For the Moon and Mars A Guide to the Soviet Superbooster

ARA Press 2014/03/01 USD39.95

Three years in the making by an international team of experts in Russia, England and the US, This gorgeous 235 page, full color, hardcover volume contains the complete history of the N-1 from its origins as a booster for missions to Mars and Venus to the abrupt change with a directive from the highest levels of Soviet government to beat the Americans to the moon!

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Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program (MIT Press)

ARA Press 2014/02/28 USD30.05

In July 1969, ninety-four percent of American televisions were tuned to coverage of Apollo 11's mission to the moon. How did space exploration, once the purview of rocket scientists, reach a larger audience than My Three Sons? Why did a government program whose standard operating procedure had been secrecy turn its greatest achievement into a communal experience? In Marketing the Moon, David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek tell the story of one of the most successful marketing and public relations campaigns in history: the selling of the Apollo program.

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Highways Into Space

Glynn S. Lunney 2014 USD20.90

Perfect gift for all the ages. Live the history and leadership of Manned Space Flight...... the Missions that all Countries Celebrated together in Peace and Joy,

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Project Gemini: Technology and Operations: A Chronology (The NASA History Series)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013/11/17 USD25.99

Project Gemini was the United States' second manned space flight program, a bridge between the pioneering achievement of Project Mercury and the yet-to-be realized lunar mission of Project Apollo. This Chronology, a step in preparing the history of Project Gemini, marks the completion of the first phase of the study of the Gemini program and lays the foundation for the narrative history that will follow. What we have done must stand as an independent work in its own right. But at the same time, some of its characteristics- in particular, what it contains and what it omits- can be properly justified only in terms of the larger whole of which it is a part.

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Apollo 13 Owners' Workshop Manual: An engineering insight into how NASA saved the crew of the failed Moon mission

Zenith Press 2013/10/03 USD22.19

The world-famous Apollo 13 mission and dramatic explosion on the service module, captured in technical detail like you’ve never seen before. On April 13, 1970, NASA’s Apollo 13 suffered a near-catastrophic explosion in space. The planned lunar landing that day was promptly called off, and a new challenge prioritized: get the spacecraft safely back to Earth.

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