Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program (New Series in NASA History)
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (920 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801874408 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Find Out What the Astronauts Did While on the Moon G. P. Roberts I first saw this book while at my local library and after glancing through it I decided it might be worth a quick look. Once I got home and started reading I quickly discovered that this was no dry Science/History book by some old college professor but a great read that tells a part of the Apollo story. John R. Keller said Fine Book on the Apollo Scientific Experiment. While much has been written about the Apollo missions to the Moon, most of these books have focused on either the spacecraft the got us to the Moon (Moon Lander or Stages to Saturn) or the astronauts (autobiographies by Collins, Cernan, Aldrin) and to a lesser degree, Mission control and the flight con. A Superb Account of Planning for Lunar Science during Apollo "Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program" by Donald A. Beattie is an excellent account of efforts by NASA scientists to do more to include science payloads on Apollo missions in the 1960s despite opposition from mission engineers, who envisioned a direct round-trip shot wit
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. From Publishers Weekly "Conceived primarily as a political statement, Apollo achieved much more than its original goal," Beattie, a geologist and former project manager of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments, writes in this valuable addition to the literature on America's race for the moon. Later missions would carry a full 250 pounds for lunar experiments, the result of years of planning, design and training by NASA project managers, engineers and astronauts. Kennedy's mandate did not specify what the astronauts should do once they got there; simply getting there was enough. As he shows,
Beattie is a former NASA engineer who has also worked with the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. He currently works as a private consultant. Donald A. He is the author of History and Overview of Solar Heat Technologies.
How did science get aboard the Apollo rockets, and what did scientists do with the space allotted to them? Taking Science to the Moon describes, from the perspective of NASA headquarters, the struggles that took place to include science payloads and lunar exploration as part of the Apollo program. Beattiewho served at NASA from 1963 to 1973 in several management positions and finally as program manager, Apollo Lunar Surface Experimentshere supplies a detailed, insider's view of the events leading up to the acceptance of science activities on all the Apollo missions.. Donald A