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First edition of this profusely illustrated collection of essays documenting NASA's Apollo Missions. Quarto, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs, charts, and maps. Boldly signed by thirty astronauts on the title page and facing page, including: Alan Bean, Karol J. Bobko, Vance Brand, Jerry Carr, Gene Cernan, Bob Crippen, Walter Cunningham, Joe Engle, Ron Evans, Gordon Fullerton, Fred Haise, Hank Hartfield, Karl G. Henize, Joe Kerwin, William B. Lenoir, Jack Lousma, Bruce McCandless, Story Musgrave, Bob Overmeyer, Robert A. Parker, Don Peterson, Bill Pogue, Rusty Schweickart, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jack Swigert, William Thornton, Richard Truly, Paul Weitz, and John Young. In near fine condition. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from the Zarelli Space Authentication. An exceptionally rare example. 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 (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961.