Overview
- Explores why there have been no human missions to the Moon in five decades
- Provides an objective assessment of modern space projects aimed at sending humans to the Moon
- Offers an insider's expert account of the evolving space industry
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Space Exploration (SPACEE)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book assesses the legacy of the Apollo missions based on several decades of space developments since the program’s end. The question of why we haven’t sent humans back to the Moon is explored through a multidisciplinary lens that weaves together technological and historical perspectives. The nine manned Apollo missions, including the six that landed on the Moon, are described here by an author who has 50 years of experience in the space industry and whose work spanned the Apollo 8–13 missions. The final section of the book provides a comprehensive assessment of today’s programs and current plans for sending humans to the Moon.
Reviews
“It takes a fresh and very readable approach, introducing much information that I at least was unaware of. … I found this book to be an absorbing and refreshing read. I’m sure that Odyssey readers will view it in the same vein.” (John Silvester, Odyssey The e-Magazine of the British Interplanetary Society, Issue 63, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Pat Norris’s 50 years of space experience includes the Apollo Moon landings as a NASA contractor and the Hubble Space Telescope as a European Space Agency programme manager. Since 1980, he has worked for CGI, and he is currently a part-time consultant to its Space Business Unit. He was Chairman of the trade association of Britain’s space industry, Ukspace, from 1995 to 1997 and Chairman of the Space Group of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) from 2004 to 2012. He is the author of two books on space surveillance as well as many articles, book chapters and conference presentations on all aspects of space. He is a Fellow of the RAeS and of the Royal Institute of Navigation, as well as a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics. He was awarded the Apollo Individual Achievement Award in 1969 and the Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Returning People to the Moon After Apollo
Book Subtitle: Will It Be Another Fifty Years?
Authors: Pat Norris
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14915-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14914-7Published: 18 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14915-4Published: 04 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 231
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 64 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), History of Technology