Across the airless wilds : the Lunar Rover and the triumph of the final moon landings / Earl Swift.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swift, Earl, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lunar surface vehicles--United States--History--20th century.

Lunar surface vehicles.

Project Apollo (U.S.).

Space flight to the Moon.

Space flight to the moon.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Custom House, [2021]

Summary:

"In this follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Chesapeake Requiem, Earl Swift rediscovers the final three Apollo Moon landings, arguing that these overlooked missions--distinguished by the use of the revolutionary Lunar Roving Vehicle--were the pinnacle of human exploration"-- Provided by publisher.

December 12, 1972. Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon's left eye, landed, and then driven five miles in to a desolate, boulder-strewn landscape. As they gathered samples, they strode at the outermost edge of mankind's travels. A few feet away sat the machine that made the achievement possible: an electric go-cart that folded like a business letter, weighed less than eighty pounds in the moon's reduced gravity, and muscled its way up mountains, around craters, and over undulating plains on America's last three ventures to the lunar surface. Swift puts reader s alongside the men who dreamed of driving on the moon and designed and built the vehicle, troubleshot its flaws, and drove it on the moon's surface. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One The Difference It Made

pt. Two Nation Of Immigrants

pt. Three Principal Considerations

pt. Four "We Must Do This!"

pt. Five A Painfully Trying Task

pt. Six Across The Airless Wilds

pt. Seven Tire Tracks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Swift, Earl, 1958- Across the airless wilds

ISBN:

9780062986535

0062986538

OCLC:

1199125729