A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

Andrew Chaikin

ISBN 10: 0140241469 / ISBN 13: 9780140241464

Editore: Penguin, 1995

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Leichte Risse; Gebogener Buchrücken. On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when two Americans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon. Now the greatest event of the twentieth century is magnificently retold through the eyes and ears of the people who were there. Based on the interviews with twenty-three moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, journalist Andrew Chaikin conveys every aspect of the missions with breathtaking immediacy: from the rush of liftoff, to the heart-stopping lunar touchdown, to the final hurdle of reentry.

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• Titolo: A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140241469
• ISBN 13: 9780140241464
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Condizione: Fine

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The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant step' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250,000 miles away.

'A Man on the Moon' is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme: from the tragedy of the fire in Apollo 1 during a simulated launch, through the euphoria of the first moonwalk, to the discoveries made by the first scientist in space aboard Apollo 17. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the astronauts and team, this is the story of the twentieth century's greatest human achievement, minute-by-minute, in the words of those who were there.