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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-08 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-06-26 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“This behind-the-scenes look at the first Apollo moon landing has the feel of a public television documentary in its breadth and detail” (Publishers Weekly,
Language: en
Pages: 539
Pages: 539
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-26 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
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Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
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Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, “an aerospace