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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew L Chaikin
Category: Biography
This acclaimed portrait of heroism and ingenuity captures a watershed moment in human history. The astronauts themselves have called it the definitive account of their missions. On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Based on in-d ...Show more
Man on the Moon - The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
Category: History
'Impressive and illuminating' -Tom Hanks The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant leap for mankind' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 240,000 miles away ...Show more
Man on the Moon - The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts A by Andrew Chaikin
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Magnum Collection
Through the windows of the slowly turning spacecraft they looked out at the place where the sun had once been, and there was the moon- a huge, magnificent sphere bathed in the eerie blue light of earthshine, each crater rendered in ghostly detail.'The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 ...Show more
The NASA Archives. 40th Ed. by Piers Bizony, Andrew Chaikin, Roger Launius
Category: Art and Design | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA, had evolved from modest research teams experimen ...Show more
The Penguin Magnum Collection: A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Magnum Collection
The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant step' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250,000 miles away. "A Man on the Moon" is the definitive account of the ...Show more
Voices from the Moon: Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences by Andrew Chaikin
Category: Science
The epic of the Apollo missions told in the astronauts' own words and gorgeously illustrated with their photographs Andrew Chaikin's "A Man on the Moon" is considered the definitive history of the Apollo moon missionsaarguably the pinnacle of human experience. Now, using never-before-published quotes t ...Show more
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