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Colin Burgess Moon Bound Choosing and Preparing NASA's Lunar Astronauts Series: Space Exploration

Explains how famous astronauts, including Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Gene Cernan - the first and last men on the Moon - were selected and trained for their missions Documents the enhanced criteria, medical selection and training process required for inclusion in the Gemini and Apollo programs Introduces some of the fascinating personalities who were not selected but could easily have been among the moonwalkers Completes a story begun by the author's "Selecting the Mercury Seven" and "NASA Scientist-Astronauts" Often lost in the shadow of the first group of astronauts for the Mercury missions, the second 2013, XXVIII, 371 p. 168 illus. and third groups included the leading figures for NASA's activities for the following two decades. “Moon Bound” complements the author’s recently published work, “Selecting the Printed book Mercury Seven” (2011), extending the story of the men who helped to launch human Softcover spaceflight and broaden the American space program. Although the initial 1959 group became 39,99 € | £34.99 | $49.99 known as the legendary pioneering Mercury astronauts, the astronauts of Groups 2 and 3 gave [1]42,79 € (D) | 43,99 € (A) | CHF us many household names. Sixteen astronauts from both groups traveled to the Moon in 47,50 Project Apollo, with several actually walking on the Moon, one of them being Neil Armstrong. This book draws on interviews to tell the astronauts' personal stories and recreate the drama eBook of that time. It describes the process by which they were selected as astronauts and explains 32,09 € | £27.99 | $39.99 how the criteria had changed since the first group. “Moon Bound” is divided into two parts, [2]32,09 € (D) | 32,09 € (A) | CHF recounting the biographies relating to the nine astronauts from NASA’s Group 2 in the first 38,00 part, and the fourteen finalists in Group 3 in the second part. The stories of both selection Available from your library or groups are narrated through the experiences of four finalists with interesting backgrounds. One springer.com/shop of these men is Al Rupp of the USAF who, as a West Point cadet, cheekily helped to steal the MyCopy [3] Navy mascot goat prior to the annual Army versus Navy game in 1953, thus achieving Printed eBook for just legendary status in the game’s history. € | $ 24.99 springer.com/mycopy Error[en_EN | Export.Bookseller. MediumType | SE]

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