The moonlandings
Subtitle: an eyewitness account
By: Reginald Turnill ; foreword by Buzz Aldrin.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
Subjects: Project Apollo (U.S.); Space flight to the moon -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-427) and index.
Table of contents: title: The context: a twentieth-century Faust; title: Preparing for manned spaceflight; title: Gagarin puts Russia ahead; title: The Moon and how to get there; title: The seven story begins; title: Glenn gets there first; title: Sequels to the seven story; title: Space travel: learning the rules; title: Overtaking the Russians; title: Apollo's bad start; title: Lassoing the Moon; title: What makes an astronaut?; title: Final rehearsals; title: The eagle soars; title: The eagle swoops; title: First steps - and where they led; title: The moonrocks-and Mars!; title: Second steps on the Moon; title: The thirteen story; title: Last men on the Moon; title: Apollo's inconclusive findings; title: Epilogues to Apollo; title: John Glenn's Apollo postscript; title: NASA and 400 years of failure; title: Von Braun's Master Plan for Mars; title: The Armstrong Photo Mystery; title: US Spaceflights Describes in the Moonlandings.