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- Book Synopsis
- This collection of oral histories of the Saturn/Apollo program recounts the unique adventure of the lunar landing programme as witnessed by some of the political leaders, engineers, scientists and astronauts who made it such a success. It includes recollections from James Webb, the NASA administrator whose political connections to Washington extended back to the New Deal of the 1930s; rocket pioneer and architect of the Saturn V rocket Wernher von Braun; the resolute Robert Gilruth, director of the Houston centre; the engineering iconoclast Maxime Faget, whose designs of spacecraft made flights to the moon possible; and astronauts such as Harrison Schmitt and Charles Duke.
- About The Author
- Glen E. Swanson is a historian at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He is a former editor of Countdown, a monthly magazine covering the Space Shuttle program and the founder of Quest, the world's only scholarly publication devoted to the history of space flight.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780813025377
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida, (21 June 2002)
- Number of Pages
- 402
- Weight
- 674 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 227 x 152 x 25 mm
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