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Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis. Monograph in Aerospace History, No. 3, 1994.

Roger D. Launius

4.2/5 ( ratings)

First published in 1994 in the NASA Monograph in Aerospace History series. From the introduction: "On 25 May 1961 President John F. Kennedy announced to the nation a goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of the decade. This decision involved much study and review prior to making it public, and tremendous expenditure and effort to make it a reality by 1969. Only the building of the Panama Canal rivaled the Apollo program's size as the largest non- military technological endeavor ever undertaken by the United States; only the Manhattan Project was comparable in a wartime setting. The human spaceflight imperative was a direct outgrowth of it; Projects Mercury , Gemini, and Apollo were each designed to execute it. It was finally successfully accomplished on 20 July 1969, when Apollo 11's astronaut Neil Armstrong left the Lunar Module and set foot on the surface of the Moon." Illustrated.

Language: English

Pages: 122

Format: Paperback

Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK

Release: March 01, 2011

ISBN: 1780393156

ISBN 13: 9781780393155

Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis. Monograph in Aerospace History, No. 3, 1994.

Roger D. Launius

4.2/5 ( ratings)

First published in 1994 in the NASA Monograph in Aerospace History series. From the introduction: "On 25 May 1961 President John F. Kennedy announced to the nation a goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of the decade. This decision involved much study and review prior to making it public, and tremendous expenditure and effort to make it a reality by 1969. Only the building of the Panama Canal rivaled the Apollo program's size as the largest non- military technological endeavor ever undertaken by the United States; only the Manhattan Project was comparable in a wartime setting. The human spaceflight imperative was a direct outgrowth of it; Projects Mercury , Gemini, and Apollo were each designed to execute it. It was finally successfully accomplished on 20 July 1969, when Apollo 11's astronaut Neil Armstrong left the Lunar Module and set foot on the surface of the Moon." Illustrated.

Language: English

Pages: 122

Format: Paperback

Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK

Release: March 01, 2011

ISBN: 1780393156

ISBN 13: 9781780393155

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