Before This Decade is Out ... - Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program (Paperback)

This collection of oral histories of the Saturn/Apollo program recounts the unique adventure of the lunar landing programme 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 to 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 centre; the engineering iconoclast Maxime Faget, whose designs of spacecraft made flights to the moon possible; and astronauts such as Harrison Schmitt and Charles Duke.

General

Imprint:	University Press of Florida
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2002
First published:	April 2002
Editors:	Glen E. Swanson
Foreword by:	Christopher C. Kraft Jr (former Director, Johnson Space Center, USA)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	424
ISBN-13:	978-0-8130-2537-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Popular astronomy Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Space travel & exploration Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	0-8130-2537-0
Barcode:	9780813025377

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