Moon Bound : Choosing and Preparing NASA's Lunar Astronauts. 1st ed. 2013

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by Colin Burgess

出版情報:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013

著者名:

• Burgess, Colin.
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シリーズ名:

Space Exploration ;

ISBN:

9781461438557 [1461438551]    

注記:

Part I Announcements and volunteers -- Screening the applicants -- The finalists -- The "Next Nine" -- Settling in -- Part II The boy from Barren Run -- Answering the call -- A few exceptionally good men -- The Fourteen -- Patience and Persistence -- "Before this decade is out" -- For some, the glory -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
Often lost in the shadow of the first group of astronauts for the Mercury missions, the second and third groups included the leading figures for NASA's activities for the following two decades. “Moon Bound” complements the author’s recently published work, “Selecting the Mercury Seven” (2011), extending the story of the men who helped to launch human spaceflight and broaden the American space program. Although the initial 1959 group became known as the legendary pioneering Mercury astronauts, the astronauts of Groups 2 and 3 gave us many household names. Sixteen astronauts from both groups traveled to the Moon in Project Apollo, with several actually walking on the Moon, one of them being Neil Armstrong. This book draws on interviews to tell the astronauts' personal stories and recreate the drama of that time. It describes the process by which they were selected as astronauts and explains how the criteria had changed since the first group. “Moon Bound” is divided into two parts, recounting the biographies rel

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