Missions to the Moon: The Story of Man's Greatest Adventure Brought to Life with Augmented Reality - Hardcover

Pyle, Rod

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1787391779 ISBN 13: 9781787391772

Publisher: Welbeck Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Full of personal insights and accounts of the long journey to getting a man on the moon, Missions to the Moon is the perfect companion for anyone with a love of space travel, the moon landings, or NASA, CNSA, RFSA, and the rest of the world's space programs.

With dozens of stunning photographs and fascinating memorabilia - such as Apollo 11 Mission Reports and Flight Director's Logs - track the birth of the space race and Yuri Gagarin's first space flight, to the many successes and failures of the Apollo mission, all the way to that boots-on-the-ground moment we have come to know so well. Uniquely complemented by ground-breaking digital technology you can become fully immersed in this interactive story of mankind's ongoing journey into the final frontier.

About this title

Review:

'Excellent, inexpensive book, well written and presented. For all fifty-year old school boys I would strongly recommend that you add this book to your library' --Astronomy Now

'A celebration of the extraordinary feat of the Apollo programme. A collector's piece.' - Niamh Shaw --BBC Sky at Night Magazine

About the Author:

Rod Pyle has written widely on space and the inner workings of NASA and has written several books including Curiosity: An Inside Account of the Mars Rover Mission and Missions to the Moon. He works on outreach programmes for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech. He is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and space.com, as well as other media outlets. He has produced numerous documentaries for The History Channel and Discovery Communications.

About this edition

• Publisher: Welbeck Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1787391779
• ISBN 13: 9781787391772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176