The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions Brandon R. Brown

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• ISBN 10:  0190681365
• ISBN 13: 9780190681364
• Author: Brandon R. Brown

The moon landing of 1969 stands as an iconic moment for both the United States and humankind. The familiar story focuses on the journey of the brave astronauts, who brought home Moon rocks and startling photographs. But Apollo’s full account includes the earthbound engineers, mounds of their crumpled paper, and smoldering metal shards of exploded engines. How exactly did the nation, step by difficult step, take men to the Moon and back? In The Apollo Chronicles, fifty years after the moon landing, author Brandon R. Brown, himself the son of an Apollo engineer, revisits the men and women who toiled behind the lights. He relays the defining twentieth-century project from its roots, bringing the engineers’ work and personalities to bright life on the page. Set against the backdrop of a turbulent American decade, the narrative whisks audiences through tense deadlines and technical miracles, from President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 challenge to NASA’s 1969 lunar triumph, as engineers confronted wave after wave of previously unthinkable challenges. Brown immerses readers in key physical hurdles–from building the world’s most powerful rockets to keeping humans alive in the hostile void of space–using language free of acronyms and technical jargon. The book also pulls back from the detailed tasks and asks larger questions. What did we learn about the Moon? And what can this uniquely innovative project teach us today?

Table contents:

1. 1945—Origins
2. 1957—Paths, Power, and Panic
3. 1960—Silent Movies and Old-World Evenings
4. 1961—A Toddler’s Marathon
5. The Moon
6. 1962—Punch Cards and a Key to the Trunk
7. 1964—Of Doubts and Bugs
8. 1965—Saturn Breathes
9. 1966—Of Software and Star Balls
10. 1967—From Madness to Miracle
11. 1968—Of Timeless Views and New Perspectives
12. 1969—Alarms and Lightning
13. 1972—From Rovers to Regrets
14. 1981—Farther Along
15. Today—Mementos and Returns
16. How We Did It

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