America's Race for the Moon; The New York Times Story of Project Apollo

New York: Random House, 1962. First Printing. Hardcover. [8], 163, [3] pages, Illustrations. Maps. Space Glossary. Moon Facts. Small rough spot inside front board. Small stains to fore-edge, DJ foxed and edges worn, with small tears. Foreword by D. Brainerd Holmes, Director of Manned Space Flight. Includes a chapter by Harold Urey! 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, which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space. It was the third US human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by the two-man Project Gemini conceived to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve men walked on the Moon. Condition: Good / Good.

Keywords: Space, Project Apollo, NASA, Project Gemini, Moon, Lunar, Astronauts, Satellites, Spacecraft, Harold Urey, Richard Witkin, Harold Schmeck, Gladwin Hill, Robert Plumb, David Binder

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Price: $30.00

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