Before This Decade Is Out ...: Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813025370 ISBN 13: 9780813025377

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2002

Synopsis

This collection of oral histories of the Saturn/Apollo program recounts the unique adventure of the lunar landing programme as witnessed by some of the political leaders, engineers, scientists and astronauts who made it such a success. It includes recollections from James Webb, the NASA administrator whose political connections to Washington extended back to the New Deal of the 1930s; rocket pioneer and architect of the Saturn V rocket Wernher von Braun; the resolute Robert Gilruth, director of the Houston centre; the engineering iconoclast Maxime Faget, whose designs of spacecraft made flights to the moon possible; and astronauts such as Harrison Schmitt and Charles Duke.

About this title

About the Author

Glen E. Swanson is a historian at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He is a former editor of Countdown, a monthly magazine covering the Space Shuttle program and the founder of Quest, the world's only scholarly publication devoted to the history of space flight.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813025370
• ISBN 13: 9780813025377
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Swanson Glen E.