Missions to the Moon
The Story of Man's Greatest Adventure Brought to Life with Augmented Reality
Published on 4. October 2018
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-1-78739-177-2 (ISBN)
Description
Full of personal insights and accounts of the long journey to getting a man on the moon, Missions to the Moon is the perfect companion for anyone with a love of space travel, the moon landings, or NASA, CNSA, RFSA, and the rest of the world's space programs.
With dozens of stunning photographs and fascinating memorabilia - such as Apollo 11 Mission Reports and Flight Director's Logs - track the birth of the space race and Yuri Gagarin's first space flight, to the many successes and failures of the Apollo mission, all the way to that boots-on-the-ground moment we have come to know so well. Uniquely complemented by ground-breaking digital technology you can become fully immersed in this interactive story of mankind's ongoing journey into the final frontier.
With dozens of stunning photographs and fascinating memorabilia - such as Apollo 11 Mission Reports and Flight Director's Logs - track the birth of the space race and Yuri Gagarin's first space flight, to the many successes and failures of the Apollo mission, all the way to that boots-on-the-ground moment we have come to know so well. Uniquely complemented by ground-breaking digital technology you can become fully immersed in this interactive story of mankind's ongoing journey into the final frontier.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Headline Publishing Group
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
200 clr and b&w photos and illus
Dimensions
Height: 283 mm
Width: 253 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1274 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78739-177-2 (9781787391772)
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Persons
Rod Pyle is a space author, journalist and historian who has authored 15 books on space history, exploration and development for major publishers in seven languages. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the National Space Society's quarterly print magazine Ad Astra, and his frequent articles have appeared in Space.com, LiveScience, Futurity, the International Business Times, Popular Science, Caltech's E&S magazine, and WIRED. Rod has written extensively for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech.
Content
Man and Moon * Vengeance Takes Flight * Sleeping Under a Red Moon * Aiming for the Moon * How to go to the Moon * Soviet Disasters * A Most Complex Machine * The Flight of the Phoenix * Into the Void * Christmas in Space * Flying to the Moon * Dress Rehearsals * Preparing for the Big One * The Voyage of Apollo 11 * 'Contact Light!' * Magnificent Desolation * Laughs From Luna: Apollo 12 * A Successful Failure: Apollo 13 * Shepard Returns * The Lunar Rover * The Genesis Rock * Landing in the Lunar Highlands * Final Moments: Apollo 17 * The Legacy of Apollo * Europe Returns to Space * Asia Ascendant * Moonbase.