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Can I read Apollo · the Race to the Moon on EtoBox?
Apollo · the Race to the Moon by Murray, Charles & Cox, Catherine Bly is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Apollo · the Race to the Moon about?
The story of America's Apollo space projects of the 1960s, told from the perspective of the scientists, engineers and people at Mission Control who made the moon landing possible. This history of science is related in human terms, and aims to capture the drama of a critical era in world history. It begins with the group of engineers commissioned to build a space programme from scratch, and the experiments at Cape Canaveral which turned theory into practice. There are portraits of Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and many of the astronauts, and accounts of the success of Apollo 11 and disastrous failure of Apollo 13. words : 197148
Who reads Apollo · the Race to the Moon?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Murray, Charles & Cox, Catherine Bly
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780976000808
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Engineering, Mathematics, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.49 / 5 (469 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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