Overview
- Offers casual and serious observers the ability to locate the Apollo landing sites (with or without visual aid) and provides history on each mission, including why sites were chosen
- Shows a visual, picture-by-picture, zoom-in guide for locating the Apollo landing sites, augmented by official NASA photos depicting views from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and astronaut photographs taken during each mission
- Includes a historical perspective on the unmanned lunar missions of Ranger and Surveyor that preceded the Apollo landings
Part of the book series: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series (PATRICKMOORE)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
James Chen is retired from the Department of the Navy and Federal Aviation Administration where he worked as a Radar and Surveillance Systems Engineer. A guest lecturer at local Washington DC/Northern Virginia/Maryland astronomy clubs on amateur astronomy topics of eyepiece design and optical filters, he wrote a short Astronomy Magazine article on Dobsonian telescope design November 1989 and served as a sales consultant to two Washington DC area telescope stores for over 30 years.
Adam Chen is Program Manager of media support for NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. He was creator and executive producer of major NASA publications including the book and web-book application documenting the history of the Space Shuttle Program “Celebrating 30 Years of the Space Shuttle Program”. Adam Chen is former Program Manager of media support for NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. He is creator and executive producer of major NASA publications, including the book and web-book application documenting the history of the Space Shuttle Program “Celebrating 30 Years of the Space Shuttle Program”. Currently Adam works as Program Manager at Plan it Advertising in Baltimore, MD.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How to Find the Apollo Landing Sites
Authors: James L. Chen
Series Title: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06456-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06455-0Published: 01 July 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06456-7Published: 04 June 2014
Series ISSN: 1431-9756
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6562
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 253
Number of Illustrations: 73 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Popular Science in Astronomy, Planetology