Where No Man Has Gone Before A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions
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We hope that this book will contribute to their assessments and assist in their judgments. Writing the history of Ap The story of Apollo is a remarkable chapter in the history of mankind.
Writing the history of Apollo has been a tremendous undertaking. There is so much to tell; there are so many facets. The story of Apollo is filled with facts and figures about complex machines, computers, and facilities, and intricate maneuvers—these are the things with which the Apollo objectives were achieved. But a great effort has also been made to tell the real story of Apollo, to identify and describe the decisions and actions of men and women that led to the creation and operation of those complex machines. The purpose of this book is only partly to record the engineering and scientific accomplishments of the men and women who made it possible for a human to step away from his home planet for the first time.
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It is primarily an attempt to show how scientists interested in the moon and engineers interested in landing people on the moon worked out their differences and conducted a program that was a major contribution to science as well as a stunning engineering accomplishment. When scientific requirements began to be imposed on manned space flight operations, hardly any aspect was unaffected. The choice of landing sites, the amount of scientific equipment that could be carried, and the weight of lunar material that could be brought back all depended on the capabilities of the spacecraft and mission operations.
These considerations limited the earliest missions and constituted the challenge of the later ones.
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Kennedy's decision to build the United States' space program around a manned lunar landing owed nothing to any scientific interest in the moon. The primary dividend was to be national prestige, which had suffered from the Soviet Union's early accomplishments in space. A second, equally important result of a manned lunar landing would be the creation of a national capability to operate in space for purposes that might not be foreseeable.
Finally, Kennedy felt the need for the country to set aside "business as usual" and commit itself with dedication and discipline to a goal that was both difficult and worthwhile.
Kennedy had the assurance of those in the best position to know that it was technologically possible to put a human on the moon within the decade. His political advisers, while stressing the many benefits including science that would accrue from a strong space program, recognized at once that humans were the key.
If the Soviets sent men and women to the moon, no American robot, however sophisticated or important, would produce an equal impact on the world's consciousness.
Where no Man has Gone Before; a History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions
Hence America's leadership in space would be asserted by landing humans on the moon. A program as complex as Apollo is not easily handled by a simple chronological account. In the early stages, from to roughly the end of , the several phases of the program had to be hammered out more or less independently and many complex relationships had to be built.
Government publication, National government publication, Internet resource Document Type: This document records the engineering and scientific accomplishments of the people who made lunar exploration possible. The story of Apollo is a remarkable chapter in the history of mankind. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. For those reasons I have organized the early chapters of the book topically, the better to deal in some detail with these early developments. This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
For those reasons I have organized the early chapters of the book topically, the better to deal in some detail with these early developments. Contents hyperlinked for easy navigation. Kindle Edition , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book.
This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Nov 02, Cole O. William David Compton provides the reader with intricate accuracy of the events following the startup of the Apollo missions and the underlying problems and concerns that would inflict and shape the development of these missions.
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These problems would include such things as science versus engineering, cost and profit of the Apollo missions, national prestige and much more. This book explained and traced the challenges of both scientists and engineers who were both involved in the Apollo Missions themselves. Among the big picture of this informative book, such technology, equipment, complex machines, facilities, and maneuvers were implemented to provide specific knowledge to increase the intricacy of the already known knowledge to the reader. The organization of events that would be laid out helped to simplify the coming of events for a complex timeline.
Not only does the author provide information of the Apollo missions and the events that occurred within the walls, but also helps to explain the effects of Apollo on the nation, both good and bad. This important reflection allows for an expanse of knowledge outside of the space program itself.
An important topic discussed was that of the Soviet Union versus the United States.
Without this pre context, we would have not known the soul reason for the Apollo missions themselves. This is just another example of the way the author expands knowledge and informs the reader. For ones who are fascinated by the impacts of the Apollo program and have a passion for science exploration, this book will satisfy both. This is one of the best books about the Apollo program, one of the official NASA histories in summary form.
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This book gets into a good amount of detail about the program's origins, how the project came together, how the NASA centers interacted, and how the lunar science program was developed. It is somewhat too technical to be considered a popular history, but for those who want to peel off several layers of the onion of Apollo, this is not to be missed. I put off reading this for many years and This is one of the best books about the Apollo program, one of the official NASA histories in summary form.
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Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions. By W. David Compton. Published as NASA Special. Apollo 15 commander David R. Scott confirms Galileo's hypothesis Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration.
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