"THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND' Met deze woorden markeert Neil Armstrong het hoogtepunt van een van de meest gedurfde expedities die de mens ooit ondernomen heeft en het begin van een nieuw tijdperk.
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Full of personal insights and accounts of the long journey to getting a man on the moon, Missions to the Moon is the perfect companion for anyone with a love of space travel, the moon landings, or NASA, CNSA, RFSA, and the rest of the world's space…
'Apollo VII - XVII: A collection of photographs taken by NASA's Apollo program astronauts 1968 - 1972' is een recentelijk verschenen fotografie boek dat terugkijkt op de iconische en niet eerder verschenen foto's van de Apollo astronauten, gemaakt…
Il y a 50 ans, dans la nuit du 20 juillet 1969, l’astronaute américain Neil Armstrong est le premier homme à poser le pied sur la Lune. "Un petit pas pour l’Homme ; un bond de géant pour l’humanité" : la première phrase prononcée par Armstrong sur la…
In what may be the best single-volume introduction to military and civilian space flight, this up-to-date space primer from the Department of Defense provides comprehensive coverage of modern spaceflight principles and practices, with an extensive…
Written by veteran aerospace journalist Bob Ward, who spent years investigating his subject, the father of modern rocketry, this biography presents a revealing but even-handed portrait of the one-time Nazi Party member who brought the United States…
We have all seen NASA’s mission control centers at moments of both triumph and tragedy. Johnson makes a significant contribution to spaceflight history by analyzing their pivotal role.”—Roger Launius, associate director for collections and curatorial…
This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America’s space program during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and early Space Shuttle eras. It is now a National Historic Landmark and is being restored to a level…
Few launch vehicles are as iconic and distinctive as NASA's behemoth rocket, the Saturn V, and none left such a lasting impression on those who watched it ascend. Developed with the specific brief to send humans to the Moon, it pushed rocketry to new…
On July 20, 1969, US astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission that carried him and his two fellow astronauts on their epic journey marked the successful culmination of a quest that, ironically, had…