Early Exploration of the Moon Ranger to Apollo, Luna to Lunniy Korabl /

• Main Author: Lund, Tom (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Space Exploration
• Subjects: Technology.; Space sciences.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Popular Science in Technology.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.

Luna 2, launched by the USSR in 1959, was the first spacecraft from Earth to land on the moon. That first voyage was followed by increasingly capable lunar exploration spacecraft from Russia and the United States. A total of 36 successful lunar exploration missions were conducted from 1959 to the la...

Table of Contents:

• Dedication
• Introduction
• Chapter 1:The Nature of the Moon
• Chapter 2: The Ranger Lunar Photography Mission
• Chapter 3: The Lunar Orbiter Mission
• Chapter 4: The Surveyor Lunar Landing Mission
• Chapter 5: The Apollo Manned Exploration of the Moon
• Chapter 6: The Apollo Command Module
• Chapter 7: The Apollo Service Module
• Chapter 8: The Apollo Lunar Module
• Chapter 9: Apollo Crew Personal Equipment
• Chapter 10: Lunar Roving Vehicle and Exploration of the Moon
• Chapter 11: Russian Launch Vehicles, Lunar Impactors and Flybys
• Chapter 12: Russian Soft Landers, Orbiters, and Rovers
• Chapter 13: Russian Manned Circumlunar Spacecraft
• Chapter 14: Russian Manned Lunar Landing Endeavours
• Bibliography
• Index.