Mission control, this is Apollo : the story of the first voyages to the moon

Título
Mission control, this is Apollo : the story of the first voyages to the moon

Andrew, Chaikin

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2009

Descripción física
xi, 114 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.

Contenido
The sites of the Apollo Moon landings -- Apollo 101: a quick review -- A word from the artist -- Introduction: who were the astronauts? -- Apollo One -- Apollo Seven: when you gotta go, you gotta go -- Apollo Eight: all this and turkey, too -- Apollo Nine: the dark side of zero-G -- Apollo Ten: the Moon rocket -- Apollo Eleven: the group brain -- Apollo Twelve: clothes make the Moonwalker -- Apollo Thirteen: a last-minute swap -- Apollo Fourteen: lunar germs? -- Apollo Fifteen: live from the Moon -- Apollo Sixteen: left behind -- Apollo Seventeen: the Moon rocks (and what happened to them after they got to Earth) -- Epilogue -- About the paintings -- The write stuff: how we wrote this book -- On research and sources -- Index.

Materia corporativa
Project Apollo (U.S.) -- History.

Término de la materia
Space exploration.
 
Space flight to the moon -- History.
 
Astronautics -- United States.
 
Space flight to the moon -- Planning.

Autor añadido
Kohl, Victoria.
 
Bean, Alan, 1932-

ISBN
9780670011568

Información de publicación
New York : Viking, 2009.


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