Apollo expeditions to the moon / edited by Edgar M. Cortright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cortright, Edgar M., editor.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Office, publisher.

United States. Government Printing Office, printer.

Series:

NASA SP (Series) ; 350.

NASA SP ; 350

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project Apollo (U.S.).

Space flight to the Moon.

Space flight to the moon.

Physical Description:

xi, 313 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.

Manufacture:

Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1975.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Apollo expeditions to the moon.

OCLC:

1623434

Online:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760005868_1976005868.pdf