The Apollo Chronicles (Hardcover)

Brandon R. Brown

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, 2019

0190681349 / 9780190681340

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Hardcover. The moon landing of 1969 stands as an iconic moment for both the United States and humankind. The familiar story focuses on the journey of the brave astronauts, who brought home Moon rocks and startling photographs. But Apollo's full account includes the earthbound engineers, mounds of their crumpled paper, and smoldering metal shards of exploded engines. How exactly did the nation, step by difficult step, take men to the Moon and back?InThe Apollo Chronicles, fifty years after the moon landing, author Brandon R. Brown, himself the son of an Apollo engineer, revisits the men and women who toiled behind the lights. He relays the definingtwentieth-century project from its roots, bringing the engineers' work and personalities to bright life on the page. Set against the backdrop of a turbulent American decade, the narrative whisks audiences through tense deadlines and technical miracles, from President John F. Kennedy's 1961 challenge to NASA's 1969 lunar triumph, as engineers confronted wave after wave of previously unthinkable challenges.Brown immerses readers in key physical hurdles--from building theworld's most powerful rockets to keeping humans alive in the hostile void of space--using language free of acronyms and technical jargon. The book also pulls back from the detailed tasks and asks largerquestions. What did we learn about the Moon? And what can this uniquely innovative project teach us today? A uniquely earthbound story of space travel, The Apollo Chronicles immerses readers in the obsessive lives and work of NASA's engineers from the starting gun of the space race through the triumphant Moon landings. Filled with new interviews, scrubbed of technical jargon, and infused with the turbulent backdrop of the 1960's, the narrative follows a handful of main characters through their longest days, tightest deadlines, and most confounding challenges. Inthe end, the surviving engineers reflect: How exactly did we do it, and what did we learn? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Título
The Apollo Chronicles (Hardcover)
Autor
Brandon R. Brown
Editorial
Oxford University Press Inc, New York
Año de publicación
2019
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0190681349
ISBN 13
9780190681340

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