By Courtney G. Brooks,James M. Grimwood,Loyd S. Swenson,Paul Dickson
ISBN-10: 0486467562
ISBN-13: 9780486467566
Refreshingly freed from jargon and technical language, this obtainable account specializes in the coordination of efforts in the back of the construction of the Apollo provider, command, and lunar modules. It covers 3 levels of spacecraft evolution: defining and designing the mandatory automobiles; constructing and qualifying them for the duty; and working them to accomplish their targets. The authors performed quite a few interviews with the project's members and relied seriously on NASA's huge information. as well as numerous appendixes, the textual content is supplemented with greater than a hundred pictures and illustrations that recapture the efforts of the committed staff of millions who reached for the moon.
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Chariots for Apollo: The NASA History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft to 1969 (Dover Books on Astronomy) by Courtney G. Brooks,James M. Grimwood,Loyd S. Swenson,Paul Dickson
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