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Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon

Andrew Chaikin

July 20, 1969, marked one of the climactic moments in our history, the day Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it is only one piece of a magnificent story. Mission Control, This Is Apollo, by the acclaimed Andrew Chaikin recounts space history from the Mercury missions through Apollo 17 and beyond. It is illustrated with stunning full-color paintings by astronaut Alan Bean, who walked on the moon with Pete Conrad on Apollo 12 and has devoted his post-NASA life to creating art. Handsome, informative, and dramatic, this is no textbook, it is the tale of humankind's greatest adventure in the last frontier: space.

GenresProject Apollo (U.S.)HistorySpace flight to the moonAstronauticsUnited StatesPlanning

114 pages

English edition · First published 2009 by Viking · ISBN 9780670011568

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