Charles River Editors
ASIN: B00X8SDB1Q
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 49
*Includes pictures*Explains the design of the Apollo program and investigations into what went wrong*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course; this can happen on any flight; it can happen on the last one as well as the first one. So, you just plan as best you can to take care of all these eventualities, and you get a well-trained crew and you go fly.” - Gus Grissom, December 1966The Apollo space program is the most famous and celebrated in American history, but the first successful landing of men on the Moon during Apollo 11 had complicated roots dating back over a decade, and it also involved one of NASA’s most infamous tragedies. Landing on the Moon presented an ideal goal all on its own, but the government’s urgency in designing the Apollo program was ...