Before This Decade is Out ...

Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program

Christopher C. Kraft Jr (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2002
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-2537-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Glen E. Swanson is a historian at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He is a former editor of Countdown, a monthly magazine covering the Space Shuttle program and the founder of Quest, the world's only scholarly publication devoted to the history of space flight.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.2002
Zusatzinfo	41 b&w photographs
Verlagsort	Florida
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 227 mm
Gewicht	674 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8130-2537-0 / 0813025370
ISBN-13	978-0-8130-2537-7 / 9780813025377
Zustand	Neuware