After Apollo

Author : John M. Logsdon
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137438522
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Apollo? written by John M. Logsdon and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took 'one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.' The success of the Apollo 11 mission satisfied the goal that had been set by President John F. Kennedy just over eight years earlier. It also raised the question 'What do you do next, after landing on the Moon?' It fell to President Richard M. Nixon to answer this question. After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program traces in detail how Nixon and his associates went about developing their response.

Author : Andy Saunders
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141996358
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apollo Remastered written by Andy Saunders and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Discover space as you've never seen it before, with these awe-inspiring, breathtakingly restored images of our first missions to the Moon 'The next best thing to being there' Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 astronaut In a frozen vault in Houston sits the original NASA photographic film of the Apollo missions. For half a century, almost every image of the Moon landings publicly available was produced from a lower-quality copy of these originals. Now we can view them as never before. Expert image restorer Andy Saunders has taken newly available digital scans and, applying pain-staking care and cutting-edge enhancement techniques, he has created the highest quality Apollo photographs ever produced. Never-before-seen spacewalks and crystal-clear portraits of astronauts in their spacecraft, along with startling new visions of the Earth and the Moon, offer astounding new insight into one of our greatest endeavours. This is the definitive record of the Apollo missions and a mesmerizing, high definition journey into the unknown.

Author : John F. Connolly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578622729
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After LM written by John F. Connolly and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John M. Logsdon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137438541
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Apollo? written by John M. Logsdon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the United States landed on the moon in July 1969, it was up to President Nixon to decide what to do in space after Apollo. This book chronicles the decisions he made, including ending space exploration and approving the space shuttle. Those decisions determined the character of the US human space flight program for the next forty years.

Author : Pat Norris
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030149153
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Returning People to the Moon After Apollo written by Pat Norris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July 2019 marks 50 years since Neil Armstrong took his famous first steps on the surface of the Moon. As people around the world celebrate the anniversary of this great American achievement, they might wonder why there have been no further human missions to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. This book assesses the legacy of the Apollo missions based on several decades of space developments since the program’s end. The question of why we haven’t sent humans back to the Moon is explored through a multidisciplinary lens that weaves together technological and historical perspectives. The nine manned Apollo missions, including the six that landed on the Moon, are described here by an author who has 50 years of experience in the space industry and whose work spanned the Apollo 8–13 missions. The final section of the book provides a comprehensive assessment of today’s programs and current plans for sending humans to the Moon.

Author : W. David Woods
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441971793
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Apollo Flew to the Moon written by W. David Woods and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stung by the pioneering space successes of the Soviet Union - in particular, Gagarin being the first man in space, the United States gathered the best of its engineers and set itself the goal of reaching the Moon within a decade. In an expanding 2nd edition of How Apollo Flew to the Moon, David Woods tells the exciting story of how the resulting Apollo flights were conducted by following a virtual flight to the Moon and its exploration of the surface. From launch to splashdown, he hitches a ride in the incredible spaceships that took men to another world, exploring each step of the journey and detailing the enormous range of disciplines, techniques, and procedures the Apollo crews had to master. While describing the tremendous technological accomplishment involved, he adds the human dimension by calling on the testimony of the people who were there at the time. He provides a wealth of fascinating and accessible material: the role of the powerful Saturn V, the reasoning behind trajectories, the day-to-day concerns of human and spacecraft health between two worlds, the exploration of the lunar surface and the sheer daring involved in traveling to the Moon and the mid-twentieth century. Given the tremendous success of the original edition of How Apollo Flew to the Moon, the second edition will have a new chapter on surface activities, inspired by reader's comment on Amazon.com. There will also be additional detail in the existing chapters to incorporate all the feedback from the original edition, and will include larger illustrations.

Author : David Whitehouse
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785786474
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space 2069 written by David Whitehouse and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is rare to read something that so closely mixes science fiction with reality, but Space 2069 does just that ... [It's] an intelligent portrait of where we may be in the next half-century. - BBC Sky at Night Nearing half a century since the last Apollo mission, mankind has yet to return to the Moon, but that is about to change. With NASA's Artemis program scheduled for this decade, astronomer David Whitehouse takes a timely look at what the next 50 years of space exploration have in store. The thirteenth man and the first woman to walk on the Moon will be the first to explore the lunar south pole - the prime site for a future Moon base thanks to its near-perpetual sunlight and the presence of nearby ice. The first crewed mission to Mars will briefly orbit the red planet in 2039, preparing the way for a future landing mission. Surviving the round trip will be the greatest challenge any astronaut has yet faced. In the 2050s, a lander will descend to the frozen surface of Jupiter's moon Europa and attempt to drill down to its subsurface ocean in search of life. Based on real-world information, up-to-date scientific findings and a healthy dose of realism, Space 2069 is a mind-expanding tour of humanity's future in space over the next 50 years.

Author : John M. Logsdon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137438541
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Apollo? written by John M. Logsdon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the United States landed on the moon in July 1969, it was up to President Nixon to decide what to do in space after Apollo. This book chronicles the decisions he made, including ending space exploration and approving the space shuttle. Those decisions determined the character of the US human space flight program for the next forty years.

Author : J Bret Bennington
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 168340369X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Apollo written by J Bret Bennington and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the impacts of NASA’s space program on American society and culture After Apollo explores how NASA’s space program impacted American society during and after the race to the Moon, looking back at the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing from the perspective of the present day. Centering on the human dimension of spaceflight, this multidisciplinary book contains chapters that address the effects of the space race on science, politics, art, fashion, and popular culture. Several essays cover themes that directly touch on the space program itself, such as the sheer improbability of the Moon landing, the hidden chemistry behind human spaceflight, and the critical role played by immigrants in making space exploration a reality. Others consider societal repercussions, such as how immense space expenditures drew attention to underfunded social programs and paved the way for Great Society social legislation, as well as how cultural narratives of exploration and the frontier evolved as the program’s goals changed. Many of the authors look at the interplay between art and space exploration, beginning with the role of popular entertainment in selling spaceflight to the public. Showcasing the work of contributors representing diverse areas of study, After Apollo details the many and varied human impacts and cultural spin-offs that came to pass as the mythology and eventual reality of space travel permeated American society. Contributors: J Bret Bennington | Matthew H. Hersch | Rodney F. Hill | Rosanna Perotti | Chris Robinson | Patricia Rossi | Sabrina Sobel | James Spiller | Allison Whitney | Julie Wosk

Author : Matthew D. Tribbe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199313520
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Requiem for the Space Age written by Matthew D. Tribbe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'No Requiem for the Space Age' paints a portrait of a nation in the midst of questioning the very values that had guided it through the post-war years as it began to develop new conceptions of progress that had little to do with blasting ever more men to the moon. Here is a narrative of the 1960s and 1970s unlike any told before, with the story of Apollo as the story of America itself in a time of dramatic cultural change.