Apollo in perspective : spaceflight then and now /: spaceflight then and now. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jonathan Allday.
• Other Names: Allday, Jonathan
• Contents: Apollo in outline -- The best driver in physics -- Intermission 1. The Saturn V booster rocket -- Rocketry -- Intermission 2. From Mercury to Gemini -- Orbits and trajectories -- The Apollo command and service modules -- Intermission 3. Inertial guidance and computers -- The lunar module -- Intermission 4. The three 'ings' -- The shuttle and its followers -- Intermission 5. The politics of Apollo -- Mars -- Intermission 6. Godspeed John Glenn -- Journeys to the stars.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 629.45/4/0973; Space flight; Space flight; Weltraumforschung; Apollo-Programm; Space flight; USA
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351086646; 1351086642
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.