Exploring the Moon [E-Book] : The Apollo Expeditions / by David M. Harland.
David Harland opens with a review of the robotic probes, namely the Rangers which returned television before crashing into the Moon, the Surveyors which 'soft landed' in order to investigate the nature of the surface, and the Lunar Orbiters which mapped prospective Apollo landing sites. He...
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Personal Name(s): | Harland, David M., author |
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Second Edition. |
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New York, NY :
Praxis,
2008
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Physical Description: |
XXIV, 404 p. 176 illus., 16 illus. in color. online resource. |
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englisch |
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9780387746418 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-0-387-74641-8 |
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Springer Praxis Books
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- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- List of acronyms
- Foreword by Harrison Schmitt
- Author’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- The Apollo challenge
- The robots
- Magnificent desolation
- ‘Pin-point’ target
- Knowledge from the Moon
- The wonder of the unknown at Hadley-Apennine
- Surprise at Descartes-Cayley
- The beautiful valley of Taurus-Littrow
- Luna revival
- Apollo in context
- Spaceflight log
- Lunar landing sites
- Apollo missions, facts and figures
- Apollo lunar samples
- Chronological bibliography
- Index.