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Apollo expeditions to the moon : the NASA history / edited by Edgar M. Cortright ; introduction to the Dover edition by Paul Dickson. - Dover ed. - Mineola, N.Y. : Dover, 2009. - xiv, 313 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm.

Originally published: Washington, D.C. : NASA, 1975. With a new introd. Includes index.

A perspective on Apollo / James E. Webb -- "I believe we should go to the moon" / Robert R. Gilruth -- Saturn the giant / Wernher von Braun -- The spaceships / George M. Low -- Scouting the moon / Edgar M. Cortright -- The cape / Rocco A. Petrone -- "This is Mission Control" / Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. -- Men for the moon / Robert Sherrod -- The shakedown cruises / Samuel C. Phillips -- Getting it all together / George E. Mueller -- "The Eagle has landed" / Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. -- Ocean of storms and Fra Mauro / Charles Conrad, Jr., Alan B. Shepard, Jr. -- "Houston, we've had a problem" / James A. Lovell -- The great voyages of exploration / Harrison H. Schmitt -- The legacy of Apollo / Homer E. Newell.

ISBN: 9780486471754 (pbk.) 0486471756 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2008056100

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Project Apollo (U.S.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Space flight to the moon.

LC Class. No.: TL789.8.U6 / A513 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 629.454 / COR