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The Moon in the Post-Apollo Era (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974)
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The Moon in the Post-Apollo Era (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974)
Series: Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs, 7
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The aim of the present book will be to summarize the results of the
space exploration of the Moon in the past fifteen years
-culminating in the manned Apollo missions of 1969-1972 -on the
background of our previous acquaintance with our satellite made in
the past by astronomical observations at a distance. Astronomy is
one of the oldest branches of science conceived by the inquisitive
human mind; though until quite recently it had been debarred from
the status of a genuine experimental science by the remoteness of
the objects of its study. With the sole exception of meteoritic
matter which occasionally finds its way into our labora tories, all
celestial bodies could be investigated only at a distance: namely,
from the effects of attraction exerted by their mass, or from the
ciphered messages of their light carried by nimble-footed photons
across the intervening gaps of space. A dramatic emergence
oflong-range spacecraft -capable of carrying men with their
instruments not only outside the confines of our atmosphere, but to
the actual surface of our nearest celestial neighbour - has since
1957 thoroughly changed this time honoured picture. In particular
(as we shall detail in Chapter 1 of this book) space astronomy
ofthe Moon is barely 15 years old. But relative infant as it is by
age, it has already provided us with such a tremendous amount of
new and previously inacces sible scientific data as to virtually
revolutionalize our subject."
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