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-Title: Tracking Apollo to the Moon.
-Author:
Hamish Lindsay.
-Publisher:
Springer Verlag.
-Pages:
14+426
-Illustrations:
B/W and colour photos and graphics.
-Language:
English.
-Publication Date:
2001.
-ISBN: 1852332123

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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

From his own first-hand experience, Hamish Lindsay brings to life the Gemini and Apollo missions in authentic, meticulous detail. "Tell it just like it was," is the theme of this book, and this philosophy has been followed: Eyewitness accounts are used wherever possible. With compelling narrative, interviews, quotes and masses of photographs, including some previously unpublished, Tracking Apollo to the Moon is an account of the famous space missions. In the preface, Lindsay says, "It was not a dream that finally put a man on the Moon... It had, however, taken visionaries from many times and many lands to develop the paving stones that built the track to the Moon. This is the story of putting those pavers down..."

(Extracted from the press release).

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

 
-Dedication.
-The Last Frontier.
-Foreword.
-The Spirit of Apollo.
-Contents.
-Origins.
-The Mercury Project.
-The Gemini Program.
-The Apollo Project.
-Apollo 11.
-Succession.
-Skylab - A Laboratory In Space.
-Apollo-Soyuz - The End Of The Apollo Era.
-Appendix 1.
-Appendix 2.
-A Quiz.
-References.
-Index and Glossary.

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