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'And the Moon came nearer'. This is a unique tribute to the defining scientific mission of our time. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, Taschen has paired Norman Mailer's seminal text with spectacular photography - from the archives of NASA, "LIFE" magazine, and many other sources - to create a unique tribute to the defining scientific mission of our time. It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy's call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, a budget of $24 billion, and the most powerful rocket ever launched all combined in an unprecedented event watched by millions the world over. And no one captured the men, the mood, and the machinery like Norman Mailer. One of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, Norman Mailer was hired by "LIFE" in 1969 to cover the Moon shot. His three-part feature was the longest nonfiction piece "LIFE" had published. He enhanced and extended his reportage with deeper reflection in the brilliantly crafted book, "Of a Fire on the Moon", excerpted here for the first time. Equally adept at examining the science of space travel and the pscyhology of the men involved - from Saturn V rocket engineer Wernher von Braun, to the crucial NASA support staff, to the three astronauts - Mailer provides provocative and trenchant insights into this epoch-making event. Illustrating this volume are hundreds of the best photographs and maps from the NASA vaults, magazine archives, and private collections. Many of them previously unpublished, these images document the development of the agency and the mission, life inside the command module and on the Moon's surface, and the world's jubilant reaction to the landing. This edition includes an original introduction by Colum McCann and captions by leading Apollo 11 experts, explaining the history and science behind the images, citing the mission log and publications of the day, and post-flight astronaut interviews.
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'And the Moon came nearer'. This is a unique tribute to the defining scientific mission of our time. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, Taschen has paired Norman Mailer's seminal text with spectacular photography - from the archives of NASA, "LIFE" magazine, and many other sources - to create a unique tribute to the defining scientific mission of our time. It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy's call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, a budget of $24 billion, and the most powerful rocket ever launched all combined in an unprecedented event watched by millions the world over. And no one captured the men, the mood, and the machinery like Norman Mailer. One of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, Norman Mailer was hired by "LIFE" in 1969 to cover the Moon shot. His three-part feature was the longest nonfiction piece "LIFE" had published. He enhanced and extended his reportage with deeper reflection in the brilliantly crafted book, "Of a Fire on the Moon", excerpted here for the first time. Equally adept at examining the science of space travel and the pscyhology of the men involved - from Saturn V rocket engineer Wernher von Braun, to the crucial NASA support staff, to the three astronauts - Mailer provides provocative and trenchant insights into this epoch-making event. Illustrating this volume are hundreds of the best photographs and maps from the NASA vaults, magazine archives, and private collections. Many of them previously unpublished, these images document the development of the agency and the mission, life inside the command module and on the Moon's surface, and the world's jubilant reaction to the landing. This edition includes an original introduction by Colum McCann and captions by leading Apollo 11 expert
Utgivelsesår 2010
Format Innbundet
ISBN13 9783836520775
EAN 9783836520775
Språk Engelsk
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