Apollo 12 - On the Ocean of Storms

David M. Harland

• 03 maart 2011
• 9781441976062

Samenvatting:

In July 1969 the ‘amiable strangers’ that made up the crew of the historic Apollo 11 flight successfully achieved the first manned lunar landing. The Apollo 12 mission also spectacularly demonstrated the precision landing capability required for success in future lunar surface explorations.

With its two moonwalks, deployment of a geophysical station and geological sampling, Apollo 12 did what many had hoped would be achieved by the first men to land on the Moon. It spectacularly demonstrated the precision landing capability required for the success of future lunar surface explorations.

Apollo 12 - On the Ocean of Storms

• contains over 30 page of color images, including high-resolution scans recently produced by NASA from the original Hasselblad film;
• covers the mission from its planning through to completion;
• includes conversations among the crew in the spacecraft that were not transmitted;
• in the definitive 'popular' account of this mission.

This is the first time in 40 years that the story of the Apollo 12 mission to the Moon has bene told in its entirety, using official documents, flight transcripts, and post-mission debriefing to recreate the drama.