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Cargando... Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missionspor Nancy Atkinson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The fiftieth anniversary commemorative edition of the history of the Apollo missions brings readers more than sixty personal interviews, oral histories, and illustrations to chronicle the race to the moon. Beginning in 1962 with NASA’s newly-created manned spaceflight program through the 1969 lunar landing, the unfolding story focuses on the engineers, the mathematicians, and the scientists working behind the scenes who helped to make the lunar landing a reality. The book also includes a commentary by astronaut Russell Schweickart, a prologue detailing the Apollo 11 lunar landing, an Acronym Reference Guide, a list of interviewees and or oral histories, and a list of films and websites. Readers with an interest in NASA’s manned spaceflight program, in Apollo 11, or in learning about the contributions of those working behind-the-scenes will find much to appreciate here. Highly recommended. Looking for an Apollo 11 anniversary read that isn't astronaut-centered? Read this! Quite a refreshing read. Too many other books on the same subject fall into telling the same stories about the same people over and over again. This book chooses to focus on individuals who worked in the space program, but have not had their stories told yet. I had heard of very few of the people highlighted here, which means I got to learn quite a bit. Hearing the story of Apollo through different voices was quite refreshing. You also learn more about just how such an audacious thing like a mission to the moon was developed and designed. My only quibble was that I'd like more/larger photos. For a larger than average sized book, I would have expected more pictures. One of the most unique space books in the last few years. Definitely worth a read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In July of 1969, three astronauts set off on an historic mission to land on the moon. Now, 50 years later, a new book celebrates the achievement of the Apollo missions, detailing an incredible period of science and engineering history. Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions tells the unique personal stories of over 60 engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program possible. The eight years from President Kennedy's challenge in 1961 to the first Moon landing in 1969 are filled with stories of the dedication and perseverance it took to overcome the challenges, hurdles and conflicts of doing things that had never been done before. The stories are fun, heart-warming and heart-breaking and they provide a glimpse into the lives of some of the hundreds of thousands of people who made it possible to land humans on the Moon."--Amazon. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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It is a bit dry in places, especially in the earlier chapters, but overall I did find it interesting, and while there is much in here that was fairly familiar to me after having read through that shelf full of books on the subject, there was a surprising amount that was new, as well. ( )