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 programs. With dozens of stunning photographs and fascinating memorabilia – such as Apollo 11 Mission Reports and Flight Director's Logs – track the birth of the space race and Yuri Gagarin's first space flight, to the many successes and failures of the Apollo mission, all the way to that boots-on-the-ground moment we have come to know so well. Uniquely complemented by ground-breaking digital technology you can become fully immersed in this interactive story of mankind's ongoing journey into the final frontier.
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This book uses ground-breaking digital technology to bring this fascinating story to life as never before. With the help of a smart phone or tablet the reader can trigger video footage, 360-degree images and complete documents including the official report into the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
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Man and Moon Vengeance Takes Flight Sleeping Under a Red Moon Aiming for the Moon How to go to the Moon Soviet Disasters A Most Complex Machine The Flight of the Phoenix Into the Void Christmas in Space Flying to the Moon Dress Rehearsals Preparing for the Big One The Voyage of Apollo 11 'Contact Light!' Magnificent Desolation Laughs From Luna: Apollo 12 A Successful Failure: Apollo 13 Shepard Returns The Lunar Rover The Genesis Rock Landing in the Lunar Highlands Final Moments: Apollo 17 The Legacy of Apollo Europe Returns to Space Asia Ascendant Moonbase.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781787391772
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Welbeck
Vekt
1280 gr
Høyde
286 mm
Bredde
250 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
176

Forfatter
Foreword by

Om bidragsyterne

Rod Pyle has written widely on space and the inner workings of NASA and has written several books including Curiosity: An Inside Account of the Mars Rover Mission and Missions to the Moon. He works on outreach programmes for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech. He is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and space.com, as well as other media outlets. He has produced numerous documentaries for The History Channel and Discovery Communications.