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The Apollo Journals
Grant Heiken, Eric Jones
ISBN: 9780387489391
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
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As we plan our return to the Moon - this time to stay - and as we consider the journey to Mars, it is vitally important to revisit the lessons of the past. This fast-moving and illustrated book does just that. It captures the excitement, spirit, and frustration of the Apollo crews as they explored this new frontier, carried out unique scientific experiments and became the first lunar field geologists.
This book explains how the Apollo crews learned to work on the lunar surface. Its lively and informative text draws heavily on transcripts and photographs to illustrate points. It puts the reader on the lunar surface with the astronauts, sharing their observations, excitement, and frustrations. The book describes the challenging yet exhilarating lunar environment facing the Apollo astronauts, and reveals their courageous, sometimes creative and occasionally humorous adaptation to the field conditions on another planet. Recent interviews with the astronauts are included in which they recall their thoughts after more than 25 years of reflection.
| ISBN | 0387489398 | | Pages | 514 | | ISBN13 | 9780387489391
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. | | Weight (grammes) | 1790 | | Imprint | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. | | Published in | New York, NY | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration | | Publication date | 28 Mar 2007 | | Height (mm) | 244 | | Library of Congress | 2007920176 | | Width (mm) | 170 | | DEWEY | 629.4540922 | | Spine width (mm) | 26 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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| 1 | | Adapting to a new world | | 1 | | 2 | | Pinpoint landing, great science, and a lot of fun | | 27 | | 3 | | A damned hard walk followed by a little golf | | 117 | | 4 | | The lunar dune buggy | | 201 | | 5 | | Drilling troubles | | 257 | | 6 | | The Descartes Highlands - high land but no volcanoes | | 327 | | 7 | | The volcanoes of Taurus-Littrow - explosive volcanism on the moon | | 361 | | 8 | | Boulder rolling - the last Apollo EVA | | 389 | | 9 | | Lessons from apollo for future operations on the moon | | 451 | | | | Afterword - the spirit of exploration | | 475 |
Aus den Rezensionen: "! 'On the Moon' bietet dem Leser die Moglichkeit, sich detailliert daruber zu informieren, was wahrend der Mondausfluge geschah und ist eine gute Quelle zu diesem Thema. Es ist demjenigen, der sich fur die APOLLO-Fluge intensiv interessiert, sehr zu empfehlen." (Tilmann Althaus, in: Sterne und Weltraum, 2008, Issue 4, S. 106)  Be the first to write a customer review
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