Pioneers of Spaceflight

By Michael A. O'Neill

July 1969. It's a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy's challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is out. It is only seven months since NASA made a bold decision to send Apollo 8 all the way to the moon on the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket. Now, on the morning of July 16, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins sit atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-stage 363-foot rocket will use its 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel them into space and into history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912332272
• ISBN13: 9781912332274
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Danann Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.8" x 10.7"