Pioneers of Spaceflight (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781912332274)

July 1969. It's a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy's challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is out. It is only seven months since NASA made a bold decision to send Apollo 8 all the way to the moon on the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket. Now, on the morning of July 16, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins sit atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-stage 363-foot rocket will use its 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel them into space and into history.

Author: Michael A. O'Neill
ISBN-10: 1912332272
ISBN-13: 9781912332274
Publisher: Danann Books
Language: English
Published: 11/06/2018
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 10.70h x 10.80w x 0.50d