Apollo expeditions to the moon
Here men from the planet earth. First set foot upon the moon - July 1969 A.D. We Came in peace for all mankind. From the plaque on the Eagle, Apollo 11, which landed on the moon on July 20, 1969
Print Book, English, 1975
Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration : United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1975
NASA SP (Series), 350
Government publications
xi, 313 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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Introduction / Robert C. Seamans, Jr
A perspective on Apollo : the forces that set us on the path to the Moon / James E. Webb
"I believe we should go to the Moon" : engineering what had never been done before / Robert R. Gilruth
Saturn the giant : building the boosters to send men beyond Earth / Wernher von Braun
The spaceships : building the first craft to cross an ocean of space / George M. Low
Scouting the Moon : mechanical explorers went before human ones / Edgar M. Cortright
The Cape : the new shopyard of space created for Apollo / Rocco A. Petrone
"This is Mission Control" : how men on Earth aided men in space / Christopher C. Kraft, Jr
Men for the Moon : how they were chosen and trained / Robert Sherrod
The shakedown cruises : bold steps preceded "one small step" / Samuel C. Phillips
Getting it all together : critical tests of the total system / George E. Mueller
"The Eagle has landed" : a goal attained, men on the Moon / Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr
Ocean of storms and Fra Mauro : exploring on foot, emplacing automatic laboratories / Charles Conrad, Jr. and Alan B. Shepard, Jr
"Houston, we've had a problem" : a crippled bird limps safely home / James A. Lovell
The great voyages of exploration : scientific expeditions return a rich harvest / Harrison H. Schmitt
The legacy of Apollo : new understanding of ourselves and our world / Homer E. Newell
Includes index
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