Operation Moon
New York: Koster-Dana Corp., Good Reading Rack Service Division, 1962. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Pamphlet. Format is 5.25 inches by 7.5 inches. 14, [2] pages. Ink notation on front cover. Scarce space ephemeral item. The author was the Science Editor of The Evening Star and The Sunday Star of Washington, D.C. Mr. Hines won a special citation from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his published series on Operation Moon. William M. Hines (September 11, 1916 – February 28, 2005) was an American journalist. According to his Washington Post obituary, he was considered "the godfather of NASA space reporting." He attended Guilford College but left for a job at the Chattanooga Times. He served as a first lieutenant in the United States Army during World War II. He worked briefly in The Pentagon's information office before joining the Washington Star as a reporter and later becoming Sunday editor. His critical coverage of the Apollo 1 fire in 1967 led to reforms at NASA. He later became Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Sun-Times. He retired from the Sun-Times in 1989. The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third US human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by the two-man Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo. Condition: Good.
Keywords: NASA, Manned Lunar Landing, Spaceflight, Spacecraft, Project Mercury, Man-in-Space, Project Apollo, Booster Rocket, Vanguard Rocket, Astronaut, Cape Canaveral
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