Before This Decade Is Out ...

Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program

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
Mitarbeit	Sonstige Mitarbeit: Christopher C. Kraft Jr
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