Reginald Turnill

The Moonlandings

An Eyewitness Account

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Produktbeschreibung

An eyewitness account of the Soviet-American race to land a man on the moon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 723g
• ISBN-13: 9780521035354
• ISBN-10: 052103535X
• Artikelnr.: 22342764

Autorenporträt

Now retired from his position as BBC Aerospace Correspondent, Turnill spent his career covering manned space missions.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Buzz Aldrin
Growing up with space - sources and acknowledgments
1. The context: a twentieth-century Faust
2. Preparing for manned spaceflight
3. Gagarin puts Russia ahead
4. The Moon and how to get there
5. The seven story begins
6. Glenn gets there first
7. Sequels to the seven story
8. Space travel: learning the rules
9. Overtaking the Russians
10. Apollo's bad start
11. Lassoing the moon
12. What makes an astronaut?
13. Final rehearsals
14. The eagle soars
15. The eagle swoops
16. First steps - and where they led
17. The moonrocks - and Mars!
18. Second steps on the moon
19. The thirteen story
20. Last men on the moon
21. Apollo's inconclusive findings
22. Epilogues to Apollo
23. John Glenn's Apollo postscript
Bibliography
Appendices
Index.