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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: First Men on the Moon
    sub title: The Story of Apollo 11
  name:
    name part: Harland, David M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 378 p. 170 illus. online resource.
  abstract: On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth. One month later, President John F. Kennedy challenged the American nation to land a man on the Moon before the decade was out. On 16 July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin set off in Apollo 11 to attempt this audacious mission, and succeeded magnificently. This book tells the story of Apollo 11, starting with crew selection and training, the choice of the landing site, and the assembly of the space vehicle, then a detailed account of the mission, featuring the lunar landing and moonwalk, and a review of how our knowledge of the Moon's history was revolutionised as a result. The story is enlivened by dialogue between the astronauts in space and the flight controllers in Mission Control.
  table of contents: Part I. The decision to go the Moon -- The Apollo spacecraft -- CSM -- LM -- The Saturn V launch vehicle -- Ground support -- Mission Control -- MSFN -- Precursor missions -- Gemini -- Apollo 8 -- Apollo 9 -- Apollo 10 -- Selecting a landing site -- Apollo operational constraints -- Lunar Orbiter reconnaissance -- Surveyor surface investigation -- The mascon issue -- Site shortlist -- Part II. The men of Apollo 11 -- The crew rotation system -- Neil Armstrong -- Buzz Aldrin -- Michael Collins -- Training -- Simulators -- Geology training -- Surface experiments -- Preparations -- Stacking -- The crawler -- Suiting up -- Witnesses -- The ticking clock -- Setting off -- Ascent -- Activities in parking orbit -- Translunar injection -- Through the radiation belts -- Coasting -- TD and E -- Coasting in passive thermal roll -- Navigational checks -- Crossing the neutral point -- Arrival -- Behind the Moon -- Lunar orbit insertion -- Circularisation -- Viewing the landing site -- Preparations -- Separation -- Descent -- Descent orbit insertion -- Initiation of powered descent -- Touchdown -- Tranquillity Base -- Post-landing activities -- EVA preparations -- On the ladder -- ‘One small step’ -- The flag ceremony -- Collecting rocks -- Ingress, sleep and preparations to leave -- Coming home -- Liftoff and rendezvous -- TEI -- In-flight press conference -- Entry, splashdown, recovery, BIG suits and quarantine trailer -- Home -- Part III. The lunar samples -- Follow-on missions -- The next two -- The lunar field geologists -- Budget cuts and lost opportunities -- Life after Apollo 11 -- Reflections.
  note: by David M. Harland.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9780387495446
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49544-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204162955.0
    record identifier: 978-0-387-49544-6