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  1. Apr 17, 2019 · Foreword to 50th Anniversary Edition Paul Dickson, vii, Foreword to 1975 Edition James C. Fletcher, xxi, Introduction to 2009 Edition Paul Dickson, xxiii, Introduction to 1975 Edition Robert C. Seamans, JR., xxv, Chronology of Major Events in Manned Space Flight and Project Apollo, xxix, 50th Anniversary Edition 13-Page Photo Insert, xlii, 1.

    • (488)
    • Edgar M. Cortright
    • $23.83
    • Dover Publications
  2. Apr 17, 2019 · This special edition of Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, an official NASA publication, commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the July 20, 1969, Moon landing with a thrilling insider's view of the space program. Essays by participants — engineers, astronauts, and administrators — recall the program's unprecedented challenges.

    • 'Carrying the Fire' By Michael Collins (Farrar Straus and Giroux, anniversary edition 2019) This autobiography of astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the lunar surface, sets the standard for astronaut-authored memoirs and provides a definitive but personal account of Apollo 11.
    • 'Moonbound' By Jonathan Fetter-Vorm (Hill and Wang, 2019) "Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight" is a full-color graphic novel that tells the story of Apollo 11, starting way back when the movements of the planets were calculated and speeding through to the development of new technology and science that made the first steps on the moon possible.
    • 'Rocket Men' By Robert Kurson (Random House, 2019) The Apollo 11 astronauts may have been the first to touch down on the moon, but Apollo 8 was the first to reach the celestial body — pulled together in four frantic months and demonstrating the best tech NASA had to offer.
    • 'Shoot for the Moon' By James Donovan (Little, Brown and Company, 2019) "Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11" is a narratively-focused history of the moon landing that Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins called "the best book on Apollo that [he] had ever read."
  3. This special hardcover edition of Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, an official NASA publication, commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the July 20, 1969 Moon landing with a thrilling insider's view of the space program. Essays by participants — engineers, astronauts, and administrators — recall the program's unprecedented challenges, with more than 160 dazzling color photographs and ...

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    • EDGAR M. CORTRIGHT
  4. Jul 20, 2019 · Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions by Nancy Atkinson. When anyone talks about Apollo 11, the people who immediately come to mind are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the ...

  5. Apr 2, 2019 · Of the many excellent books written about the flight of Apollo 11 last year, the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, First on the Moon is set apart because of the author’s gift for understanding and portraying the human side of the first lunar landing.

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  7. 2019: 50th anniversary of the moon landing Dover has partnered with NASA to bring back in print these official contemporary histories. Written by many of the agency's historians and featuring insider accounts by scientists and astronauts, these affordable books are filled with awe-inspiring photographs, many taken from the actual crafts sent into space.