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Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook

Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook

Orloff, Richard W.
Harland, David M.

Paperback

General ReferenceAstronomy & SpacePhysics

Publisher Price: $89.99

ISBN10: 0387300430
ISBN13: 9780387300436
Publisher: Springer
Published: Mar 15 2006
Pages: 634
Weight: 2.39
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.64 Depth: 9.58
Language: English

On 25 May 1961, John F Kennedy announced the goal of landing an American man on the Moon by the end of the decade. This challenge forced NASA to review the planned lunar landing of a three-man spaceship named Apollo in the mid-1970s. In 1962, it was decided that a specialized vehicle would accompany the main spacecraft, to make the lunar landing while the mothership remained in lunar orbit. To send these vehicles to the Moon would require the development of an enormous rocket. Development was protracted, but in December 1968 Apollo 8 was launched on a pioneering mission to perform an initial reconnaissance in lunar orbit. When Apollo 17 lifted off from the Moon in December 1972, the program was concluded. Now, at long last, there is a real prospect of a resumption of human exploration of the Moon.

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