A man on the moon : the voyages of the Apollo astronauts
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Penguin 1998Description: 670pISBN: 0140272011Subject(s): Project Apollo (U.S.) Space flight to the moon | United States Astronauts | Moon missionDDC classification: 629.4540973 Summary: 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-depth interviews with twenty-three of the twenty-four moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, A Man on the Moon conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail. A Man on the Moon is also the basis for the acclaimed miniseries produced by Tom Hanks, From the Earth to the Moon, now airing and streaming again on HBO in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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629.40954 DAS/T Touching lives : the little known triumphs of the Indian space programme | 629.40954 PA/D Destination Moon : India's quest for the Moon, Mars, and beyond | 629.40973 BER/L Liftoff : Elon Musk and the desperate early days that launched SpaceX | 629.4540973 CHA/M A man on the moon : the voyages of the Apollo astronauts | 629.8 ADV Advances in PID control / | 629.8 DES/M Modeling and control of engineering systems | 629.8 GHO/C Control system:theory and applications |
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-depth interviews with twenty-three of the twenty-four moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, A Man on the Moon conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail.
A Man on the Moon is also the basis for the acclaimed miniseries produced by Tom Hanks, From the Earth to the Moon, now airing and streaming again on HBO in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.
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