How Apollo flew to the Moon
"David Woods tells the exciting story of how the Apollo flights were conducted by following a virtual flight to the Moon and back. From launch to splashdown, he hitches a ride in the incredible spaceships that took men to another world, exploring each step of the journey and detailing the enormous range of disciplines, techniques and procedures the Apollo crews had to master. While describing the tremendous technological accomplishment involved, he adds the human dimension by calling on the testimony of the people who were there at the time." "In How Apollo Flew to the Moon there is wealth of accessible material: the role of the powerful Saturn V, the reasoning behind trajectories, the day-to-day concerns of human and spacecraft health between two worlds, and the sheer daring involved in traveling to the Moon in the mid-twentieth century."--Jacket
eBook, English, ©2008
Springer Verlag ; Published in association with Praxis Pub., New York, Chichester, U.K., ©2008
History
1 online resource (xxvii, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
9780387740669, 9780387716756, 038774066X, 0387716750
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Apollo's birth.- Saturn cometh.- Launch -- a fiery departure.- Earth orbit.- Translunar injection.- Retrieving the lander.- Navigating to the moon.- Coasting to the moon.- Entering lunar orbit - the LOI manoeuvre.- Next stop -- the Moon.- Orbital sojourn -- doing science from a spacecraft.- Rendezvous and docking.- Heading for home -- the TEI manoeuvre.
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