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9780813025377: Before This Decade Is Out: Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0813025370 ISBN 13 : 9780813025377
Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2002

Synopsis

Winner of the 1999 Pendleton Prize

This significant collection of oral histories of the Saturn/Apollo program recounts the unique adventure of the lunar landing program as witnessed by some of the political leaders, engineers, scientists, and astronauts who made it such a success. It includes recollections from James Webb, the NASA administrator whose political connections in Washington extended back to the New Deal of the 1930s; rocket pioneer and architect of the Saturn V rocket Wernher von Braun; the resolute Robert Gilruth, director of the Houston center; the engineering iconoclast Maxime Faget, whose designs of spacecraft made flights to the moon possible; and astronauts such as Harrison Schmitt and Charles Duke.

These reflections on this unique time, place, and accomplishment are a must read for any student of space history and Project Apollo. The foreword by Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center, introduces this extraordinary first chapter in America's space history.

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À propos de l'auteur

Glen E. Swanson is a historian at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

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Éditeur
University Press of Florida
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813025370
ISBN 13 
9780813025377
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
424
Éditeur
Swanson Glen E.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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