Exploring the Moon The Apollo Expeditions

Name: Exploring the Moon The Apollo Expeditions
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780387746388

ISBN-10: 0387746382

ISBN-13: 9780387746388

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: David M. Harland

List price: $49.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Semester Rental: $25.11 Due date: 8/14/2024

Rental notice: supplementary materials (access codes, CDs, etc.) are not guaranteed with rental orders.

Buy new: $23.66

Rent eBooks

30 day rental: $13.50 Expiration date: 5/26/2024

60 day rental: $18.00 Expiration date: 6/25/2024

90 day rental: $22.50 Expiration date: 7/25/2024

120 day rental: $27.00 Expiration date: 8/24/2024

180 day rental: $29.25 Expiration date: 10/23/2024

Marketplace

4 new & used from $3.87

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

David Harland opens with a review of the robotic probes, namely the Rangers which returned television before crashing into the Moon, the Surveyors which 'soft landed' in order to investigate the nature of the surface, and the Lunar Orbiters which mapped prospective Apollo landing sites. He then outlines the historic landing by Apollo 11 in terms of what was discovered, and how over the next several missions the program was progressively geared up to enable the final three missions each to spend three days on comprehensive geological investigations. He concludes with a review of the robotic spacecraft that made remote-sensing observations of the Moon. Although aimed at the enthusiast, and…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 3/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 404
Size: 8.27" wide x 10.98" long x 0.37" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English



List of illustrations


Tables


Acronyms


Foreword



The robots



Magnificent desolation



'Pin-point' Landing



Knowledge from the Moon



The wonder of the unknown at Hadley-Apennine



Surprise at Descartes-Cayley



The beautiful valley of Taurus-Littrow



Luna revival



Apollo in context


Spaceflight log


Lunar landing sites


Apollo missions, facts and figures


Apollo lunar samples


Chronological bibliography


Index