In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (842 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803229798 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggle to land one of their own people on the moon. From the Gemini flights to the Soyuz space program to the earliest Apollo missions, including the legendary first moon landing, their book draws a richly detailed picture of the space race as an endeavor equally endowed with personal meaning and political significance.. Drawing on interviews with astronauts, cosmonauts, their families, technicians, and scientists, as well as rarely seen Soviet and American government documents, the authors craft a remarkable story of the golden age
Colin Burgess is a former flight service director with Qantas Airways and the editor of Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969–1975 (Nebraska 2010). Walter Cunningham was a NASA astronaut from 1963 to 1971 and a crew member on the first manned Apollo flight.. Francis French is the director of education at the San Die
Another great book by French and Burgess Richard Easton This brilliant book carries the story up to 1969 with many glimpses past Apollo 11. The tragic story of Apollo 1 reminds me of the comments of some Japanese about the arrogance that led to their defeat at the Battle of Midway. They referred to it as victory disease. NASA tried to do too much too fast and three astronauts died as a result.The story of Soyuz 5's reentry is alone worth the price of the book. Its instrument panel remained attached much longer than it was supposed to and almost killed the pilot since the spacecraft was reentering back to front until it finally was detached. One wonders why the Soviets had . "Another winner!" according to Melvin D. Croft. During the race to the moon in the 1960's early space program we were lead to believe that the astronauts were machined clones built of the "right stuff". "In the Shadow of the Moon", the second edition in the Outward Odyssey series, picks up where the first book ended and provides riveting documentation that these men were not clones, but real human beings who processed human feelings and frailties just like the rest of us. French and Burgess, through personal interviews with many of the astronauts, cosmonauts, and others associated with the space program bring their stories to life and let us experience the race to . In the Shadow of the Moon Alfred M. Worden If you want to know about the voyages of the Lunar astronauts during the golden age of space flight, read this book. Francis and Colin capture not only the hard detail of lunar flights, but also the human side of the living and working in space. What is it like to fly to the moon and how we as humans do it. The exploration of the moon was mankind's greatest adventure and its greatest achievement during a time of international tension. The benefits of the lunar landings, in terms of the technology and management system that were developed gave us a quantum leap in capability and understanding. Thanks to Francis and Col
French, an executive at Sally Ride Science, and Burgess, author of Fallen Astronauts, chronicle the missions on which American astronauts learned how to live in space for more than a few hours; steer a spacecraft around the Earth at almost 20,000 miles an hour; rendezvous with a companion ship; and navigate to another world and return safely. For young readers born decades after man last walked on the moon, this is a readable introduction to the first years of America's leap into space. The authors relate that during the early Gemini missions, in the mid-'60s, several crews came close to ending in tragedy before NASA had the bright idea to have Buzz Aldrin practice in a Baltimore swimming pool for the final flight, Gemini 12. From Publishers Weekly The Gemini program has always been NASA's quiet, superachieving middle child, overshadowed by the space cowboys of the Mercury years and Apollo's lunar prospectors. . The