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Author : Al Worden
Release : 1974
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis I Want to Know about a Flight to the Moon by : Al Worden
Download or read book I Want to Know about a Flight to the Moon written by Al Worden. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of the Apollo 15 crew describes how he became an astronaut, the training he received, and the flight of the Apollo 15.
Author : Gilbert Sorrentino
Release : 2012-11-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 899/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Moon in Its Flight by : Gilbert Sorrentino
Download or read book The Moon in Its Flight written by Gilbert Sorrentino. This book was released on 2012-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gilbert Sorrentino has long been one of our most intelligent and daring writers. But he is also one of our funniest writers, given to Joycean flights of wordplay, punning, list-making, vulgarity and relentless self-commentary.”—The New York Times “Sorrentino’s ear for dialects and metaphor is perfect: his creations, however brief their presence, are vivid, and much of his writing is very funny and clever, piled with allusions.”—The Washington Post Book World Bearing his trademark balance between exquisitely detailed narration, ground-breaking form, and sharp insight into modern life, Gilbert Sorrentino’s first-ever collection of stories spans 35 years of his writing career and contains both new stories and those that expanded and transformed the landscape of American fiction when they first appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Harper’s, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories. In these grimly comic, unsentimental tales, the always-memorable characters dive headlong into the wasteland of urban culture, seeking out banal perversions, confusing art with the art scene, mistaking lust for love, and letting petty aspirations get the best of them. This is a world where the American dream is embodied in the moonlit cocktail hour and innocence passes at a breakneck speed, swiftly becoming a nostalgia-ridden cliché. As Sorrentino says in the title story, “art cannot rescue anybody from anything,” but his stories do offer some salvation to each of us by locating hope, humor, and beauty amidst a prevailing wind of cynical despair. Gilbert Sorrentino has published over 20 books of fiction and poetry, including the classic Mulligan Stew and his latest novel, Little Casino, which was shortlisted for the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award. After two decades on the faculty at Stanford University, he recently returned to his native Brooklyn.
Author : Michael Collins
Release : 2011-04-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 472/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Flying to the Moon by : Michael Collins
Download or read book Flying to the Moon written by Michael Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this entrancing account, space traveler Michael Collins recalls his early days as an Air Force test pilot, his astronaut training at NASA, and his unparalleled experiences in orbit, including the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar landing. The final chapter to his autobiography, revised and updated for this edition of Flying to the Moon, is an exciting and convincing argument in favor of mankind's continued exploration of our universe. "Several astronauts have written about their experiences, but none so well as Michael Collins...This is just the book to give the child whose parents made Yeager and The Right Stuff best sellers."-The Washington Post Book World
Author : W. David Woods
Release : 2011-08-08
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 793/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis How Apollo Flew to the Moon by : W. David Woods
Download or read book How Apollo Flew to the Moon written by W. David Woods. This book was released on 2011-08-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stung by the pioneering space successes of the Soviet Union - in particular, Gagarin being the first man in space, the United States gathered the best of its engineers and set itself the goal of reaching the Moon within a decade. In an expanding 2nd edition of How Apollo Flew to the Moon, David Woods tells the exciting story of how the resulting Apollo flights were conducted by following a virtual flight to the Moon and its exploration of the surface. From launch to splashdown, he hitches a ride in the incredible spaceships that took men to another world, exploring each step of the journey and detailing the enormous range of disciplines, techniques, and procedures the Apollo crews had to master. While describing the tremendous technological accomplishment involved, he adds the human dimension by calling on the testimony of the people who were there at the time. He provides a wealth of fascinating and accessible material: the role of the powerful Saturn V, the reasoning behind trajectories, the day-to-day concerns of human and spacecraft health between two worlds, the exploration of the lunar surface and the sheer daring involved in traveling to the Moon and the mid-twentieth century. Given the tremendous success of the original edition of How Apollo Flew to the Moon, the second edition will have a new chapter on surface activities, inspired by reader's comment on Amazon.com. There will also be additional detail in the existing chapters to incorporate all the feedback from the original edition, and will include larger illustrations.
Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Release : 1968
Genre : Astronautics
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Book Synopsis NASA EP. by : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Download or read book NASA EP. written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This book was released on 1968. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
