One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0760337101 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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star wars grandma said Keepsake Book!. Beautiful book commemorating moon landing. Pictures are awesome - very well done.Gave it to a family member who turned Keepsake Book! star wars grandma Beautiful book commemorating moon landing. Pictures are awesome - very well done.Gave it to a family member who turned 40 on the same day as the moon landing.A perfect gift!. 0 on the same day as the moon landing.A perfect gift!. D. Price said One Giant Leap. This book was purchased in commemoration of the One Giant Leap D. Price This book was purchased in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the July 20, 1969 landing. It tells the story in detail with all of the original famous pictures, and even many color photos I had never seen before. It gives the history with wonderful large and full color photos of John Glenn's Mercury Atlas ship, Mission Control, etc. In addition, the book looks to the future with text and photo quality illustrations of Orion.The only things I could not find were photos of Gemini and an index. However, this is more of a coffee table book so an index is not really necessary.I greatly enjoyed this book and . 0th anniversary of the July "One Giant Leap" according to D. Price. This book was purchased in commemoration of the One Giant Leap D. Price This book was purchased in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the July 20, 1969 landing. It tells the story in detail with all of the original famous pictures, and even many color photos I had never seen before. It gives the history with wonderful large and full color photos of John Glenn's Mercury Atlas ship, Mission Control, etc. In addition, the book looks to the future with text and photo quality illustrations of Orion.The only things I could not find were photos of Gemini and an index. However, this is more of a coffee table book so an index is not really necessary.I greatly enjoyed this book and . 0th anniversary of the July 20, 1969 landing. It tells the story in detail with all of the original famous pictures, and even many color photos I had never seen before. It gives the history with wonderful large and full color photos of John Glenn's Mercury Atlas ship, Mission Control, etc. In addition, the book looks to the future with text and photo quality illustrations of Orion.The only things I could not find were photos of Gemini and an index. However, this is more of a coffee table book so an index is not really necessary.I greatly enjoyed this book and . 0, 1969 landing. It tells the story in detail with all of the original famous pictures, and even many color photos I had never seen before. It gives the history with wonderful large and full color photos of John Glenn's Mercury Atlas ship, Mission Control, etc. In addition, the book looks to the future with text and photo quality illustrations of Orion.The only things I could not find were photos of Gemini and an index. However, this is more of a coffee table book so an index is not really necessary.I greatly enjoyed this book and . An average book I worked on Gemini and Apollo at Kennedy, and I try to read every space history book I can get my hands on. From the title, I expected this book to be exclusively about the Apollo 11 mission. However, there is a lot of material included that, while still of interest, has nothing to do with Apollo 11. The photos are good, altho some of the captions are a little misleading. There are several technical and factual errors, including the strange one making the rounds lately about Apollo 6 heading toward earth before recovering and limping into orbit.
Emme Award for Astronautical Writing), Starman (a biography of Yuri Gargarin) and Space: 50, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and HarperCollins, marking the 50th anniversary of Sputnik.His latest
The first moon landing in July 1969 captured the imagination of the world as no subsequent “space spectacular” has.Forty years later, space historian Piers Bizony has produced a stunning visual record of this unparalleled mission.Drawing on high-resolution images from the entire suite of Apollo 11’s on-board film magazines, the book presents a complete picture of the mission: the launch, the astronauts’ lives inside the spacecraft, the landing and moon walk, and finally the return to earth to worldwide acclaim.Accompanying these remarkable images, many published here for the first time, is Bizony’s fascinating essay on the lasting cultural and emotional impact of the mission.Quotes from astronauts, scientists, and literary commentators add an extra dimension to Bizony’s account.Apollo 11 may have happened a long time ago, Bizony remarks, but it casts an important shadow over today’s generation.Can we live up to it and learn from it--or even repeat its achievements with new spacecraft?However tempting it might be to assume that our advanced modern society
Emme Award for Astronautical Writing), Starman (a biography of Yuri Gargarin) and Space: 50, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and HarperCollins, marking the 50th anniversary of Sputnik.His latest project, Atom, is linked with a major BBC TV series on the discovery of quantum physics.. About the AuthorPiers Bizony has written about science, aerospac