To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration

by Don E. Wilhelms

Book Overview

When human exploration of the lunar surface began in 1969, it marked not only an unprecedented technological achievement but also the culmination of scientific efforts to understand lunar geology. Memoirs of the Apollo astronauts have preserved the exploratory aspects of these missions; now a geologist who was an active participant in the lunar program offers a detailed historical view of those events--including the pre-Apollo era--from a heretofore...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816510652
• ISBN13: 9780816510658
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"