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It's 35 years since the Intrepid voyage to the Ocean of Storms . Ask the average person to name the crew and you'll be lucky if they can name even one of them. Ironically this collective amnesia is likely to be transitory, in a couple of hundred years from now the names of Conrad, Gordon and Bean will probably find their true place in the annals of human history.It is my sincere hope and ...

Homer himself could not have written a more captivating story than the flight of Apollo 13 . On April 11 1970 veteran astronaut Jim Lovell and his crewmates Jack Swigert and Fred Haise rode atop the eighth launch of the Saturn V juggernaut to begin their ill-fated journey to the moon. The aptly named Command Module Odyssey and the reluctant Lunar Module - lifeboat Aquarius were ...

After the unfortunate accident which befell Apollo 13 the job of getting NASA back to the moon fell on the shoulders of America's oldest astronaut Alan B. Shepard . Shepard had been grounded since the flight of Freedom 7 in 1961 due to an inner ear disorder. After undergoing treatment the "Icy Commander" was bumped to the top of the flight roster and appointed to command the flight of ...

The legacy of the Apollo programme is rich in outstanding discoveries and accomplishments but none more so than the first fully equipped lunar landing mission. Apollo 15 was the first moon-landing to venture into the treacherous terrain of a lunar mountain range. After a perfect pin-point landing astronauts David Scott and James Irwin explored the mysterious Hadley Rille with the ...

This book includes a CDROM with the entire EVA video footage from Apollo 16 as well as thousands of still images and QTVR pans of Descartes Base and an exclusive interview with Captain John Young. The landing site selected for the crew of Apollo 16 was in the lunar highland area of Descartes. NASA chose to send John Young to command the fifth lunar landing mission. Young had as much ...

With CDROM and an exclusive introduction by Dr Harrison Schmitt . It was just past midnight in the early morning hours of December 7th 1972 when the last manned Saturn V roared from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center. Strapped into the crowded Command Module were Commander Eugene Cernan , Command Module Pilot Ron Evans and Lunar Module Pilot/Geologist Harrison Schmitt. Their ...

This next volume in the acclaimed NASA Mission Reports Series is packed full of never before seen materials. This book include the NASA Mission Reports for Apollo 17 as well as the NASA press releases from 1972 relating to the flight. The DVD in the back contains an exclusive video interview with Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan , the last man to set foot on the moon. Apollo 17 was the ...

October 1968 and the United States manned space program was about to be reborn. An entirely new space vehicle awaited its pilots at Pad 34. After 21 months the three-man Apollo space capsule had undergone a transformation. Over 1300 modifications had been made to the spacecraft following the tragic fire, which had claimed the lives of the Apollo 1 crew. Now the three men who had lost their ...

On December 21st 1968 the National Aeronautics & Space Administration sent three men to orbit the moon. Commander Frank Borman , Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders were to be the first humans to enter deep space. It was the boldest step yet taken in the quest to fulfill President John Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the ...

On March 3rd 1969 Commander James McDivitt , Command Module Pilot David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot Russell Schweickart would be the first people to fly in a true spacecraft. Although the insect-like Lunar Module had flown once before this was to be the first manned test. This would be the first time that all of the Apollo hardware would be flown together and it would put one more ...

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