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Countdown to a Moon Launch: Preparing Apollo for Its Historic Journey
Jonathan H. Ward
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Description for Countdown to a Moon Launch: Preparing Apollo for Its Historic Journey
Paperback. Series: Springer-Praxis Books. Num Pages: 435 pages, 193 black & white illustrations, 78 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PDZ; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 255 x 18. Weight in Grams: 728.
Thousands of workers labored at Kennedy Space Center around the clock, seven days a week, for half a year to prepare a mission for the liftoff of Apollo 11. This is the story of what went on during those hectic six months. Countdown to a Moon Launch provides an in-depth look at the carefully choreographed workflow for an Apollo mission at KSC. Using the Apollo 11 mission as an example, readers will learn what went on day by day to transform partially completed stages and crates of parts into a ready-to-fly Saturn V. Firsthand accounts of launch ... Read more
Thousands of workers labored at Kennedy Space Center around the clock, seven days a week, for half a year to prepare a mission for the liftoff of Apollo 11. This is the story of what went on during those hectic six months. Countdown to a Moon Launch provides an in-depth look at the carefully choreographed workflow for an Apollo mission at KSC. Using the Apollo 11 mission as an example, readers will learn what went on day by day to transform partially completed stages and crates of parts into a ready-to-fly Saturn V. Firsthand accounts of launch ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Springer-Praxis Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
435
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319177915
SKU
V9783319177915
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99-15
About Jonathan H. Ward
American author Jonathan Ward spent several years of his childhood in Japan, but he considers the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D. C., to be his hometown. Although he has a wide variety of interests and has worked in many fields, space exploration is his lifelong passion. His joy of bringing the space program to life for the general public began ... Read more
Reviews for Countdown to a Moon Launch: Preparing Apollo for Its Historic Journey
This is a painstakingly researched and compiled book, with nearly 400 pages of finely detailed narrative plus appendices, covering the process of preparing, assembling and testing Apollo Moon rockets-boosters, command/service modules and lunar modules-at the Kennedy Space Center. ... it is an enjoyable one. This carefully researched and lovingly written book merits a space on the bookshelf of any Apollo ... Read more