All We Did Was Fly to the Moon (History-alive series)
by Dick Lattimer
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SUPERANNO A mini-history of America's Manned Moon Program of the 1960s and 70s. Includes all Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab flights in chronological order. Input from twenty-eight of the astronauts that made these historic flights explaining why they named their spacecraft what they did, and what was behind the design of their mission patches. Foreword by James A. Michener.Tags
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This book is chock-full of information on each of the Apollo flights, including photos and flight patches.
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Dick Lattimer is a native of South Bend, Indiana, and is a graduate of indiana University in Bloomington. As an advertising manager for Bear Archery, Kidde, Inc., in Gainesville, Florida, Lattimer is the man responsible for bringing archery to the astronauts. He was instrumental in building the first field range for the astronaut gym at the Manned show more Spacecraft Center in Houston. Lattimer is a fellow of the British Interplanetary Society. Space Station Friendship is his second book on spaceflight. Founder and executive director of the Fred Bear Sports Club, and international association of hunters and fisherman, Lattimer is editor of the Big Sky. He lives with his wife. Alice, in Gainesville and is the father of three children. show less
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- Spiro T. Agnew; Buzz Aldrin; Jon L. Allen; Joseph P. Allen (Dr.); Bill Anders; Neil Armstrong (show all 139); John C. Atkinson; Cyril E. Baker; Steve Bales; Thelma Barber; Ardan Barbicane; Nicholl Barbicane; Charles A. Bassett (II); Jean Bealieu; Alan Bean; Amy Sue Bean; Clay Bean; Sue Bean; Fred Bear; Baudoin, King of the Belgians; Fabiola, Queen of the Belgians; Howard Benedict; Cecelia Bibby; Willard S. Blanchard; William Bland; Karol J. Bobko; Carroll Bolender; Frank Borman; Vance Brand; Leonid Brezhnev (as Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev); Robert Browning; Walter Burke; Valery Bykovsky; M. Scott Carpenter; Gerald P. Carr; Eugene Cernan; Roger B. Chaffee; Robert G. Chilton; Anthony J. Cipriano; Russell M. Colley; Michael Collins, astronaut; Sue Cometa; Charles L. 'Pete' Conrad, junior; Henry S. F. Cooper, junior; James R. Cooper; Leroy Gordon Cooper, junior; Robert L. Crippen; Walter Cunningham; Leighton L. Davis (Major General); Kurt Debus (Dr); Georgy Dobrovolsky; Anatoly F. Dobrynin; Charles Duke (Charlie M. Duke); Carl F. Effler; Donn F. Eisele; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Jerry Elmore; Joe Henry Engle; Llewellyn Evans; Ronald E. Evans; D. Ewing; Maxime Faget (Maxime A. Faget); Jayme Flowers; Gerald Ford (Gerald R. Ford); Frank Kelly Freas; Theodore C. Freeman; C. G. Fullerton; Donald Fuqua (Representative); Galileo Galilei; Yuri Gagarin; Joe Garino; Helen-Mary Garriott; Owen K. Garriott; Mike Gentry; Edward G. Gibson; Robert Gilruth (Robert R. Gilruth); Paul E. Gilsdorf; Edward G. Givens, junior; Annie Glenn; John H. Glenn, Jr.; Fred K. Godfrey; Richard F. Gordon; Gus Grissom; Nancy Gunter; Fred W. Halse, junior; Dora Jane Hamblin; Jerome B. Hammack; Paul Haney; Steve Hawley; Jack C. Heberlig; John F. Heitsch; John Hodge; Neil Hutchinson; Jim Irwin (James B. Irwin); Stan Jacobsen; Caldwell C. Johnson; Lyndon Baines Johnson; Dale A. Jones; Don Jones; Walter Kapryan; Carrie Karegeannes; Alan B. Kehlet; John F. Kennedy; Joseph P. Kerwin; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Kenneth Kleinknecht; Vladimir M. Komarov; Chris Kraft (Christopher C. Kraft); Gene Kranz (Eugene F. Kranz); Vadim Kravets; Nikita Khrushchev; Valeriy Kubasov; William Lapham; William Lear (Dr); N. Gordon LeBert; Alexey Leonov; Charles A. Lindbergh; Gratia Lousma; Jack R. Lousma; Sir Bernard Lovell; Jim Lovell (James A. Lovell, junior); George Low; Lucian of Samosata, c. 125-after 180; John Gillespie Magee, junior; Barbara Matelski; Thomas Kenneth 'Ken' Mattingly II; Robert McCall; Ray McClure; Evan McCollum; James A. McDivitt; Mike McDivitt; Paul McDonald; John McLeish; Margaret Mead; Andre J. Meyer, junior; James A. Michener; Judith Miles; Edgar D. Mitchell; George E. Mueller (Dr)
- Important places
- Earth; The Moon
- Important events
- Apollo program
- Epigraph
- "High Flight"
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings,
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds---and... (show all) done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of---wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
"John Gillespie Magee, Jr. was an American who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and was killed at the age of nineteen, flying a Spitfire during the Battle of Britain. He was born in China and lived in Washington, where his... (show all) father was rector of St. John's Church across from the White House. "High Flight" is without a doubt the best-known poem among aviators and can be found, elegantly framed or carelessly tacked, on home and office walls around most military airfields." -- Michael Collins, "Carrying the Fire" - Dedication
- This edition is warmly dedicated to the lost crew of Challenger and their families. Some were friends, and the last time El Onizuka called, just a few weeks before the fatal launch, was to tell me how very much he was enjoyin... (show all)g this book. I urge everyone to donate to the Challenger Center in their memory. Se Appendix for details.
Also dedicated to the late Cy Baker, Administrator of the Astronaut Office in Houson, a good friend who helped a great deal in compiling this information. - Original language
- English
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature, History, Biography & Memoir
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- 629.45 — Applied science & technology Engineering Transportation Vehicles Spacecraft & Vehicles Manned space flight
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- TL789.8 .U5 .A64 — Technology Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics Astronautics. Space travel
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