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The First Men on the Moon : The Story of Apollo 11
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ISBN: 1281107778 9786611107772 0387495444 0387341765 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York,

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On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth. One month later, President John F. Kennedy challenged the American nation to land a man on the Moon before the decade was out. On 16 July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin set off in Apollo 11 to attempt this audacious mission, and succeeded magnificently. This book tells the story of Apollo 11, starting with crew selection and training, the choice of the landing site, and the assembly of the space vehicle, then a detailed account of the mission, featuring the lunar landing and moonwalk, and a review of how our knowledge of the Moon's history was revolutionised as a result. The story is enlivened by dialogue between the astronauts in space and the flight controllers in Mission Control.


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NASA's Moon Program : Paving the Way for Apollo 11
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ISBN: 0387681310 9786612827860 0387681329 1282827863 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,

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In 'Paving the Way for Apollo 11' David Harland explains the lure of the Moon to classical philosophers, astronomers, and geologists, and how NASA set out to investigate the Moon in preparation for a manned lunar landing mission. It focuses particularly on the Lunar Orbiter and Surveyor missions.

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