Author: Matthew D. Tribbe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199313520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
'No Requiem for the Space Age' paints a portrait of a nation in the midst of questioning the very values that had guided it through the post-war years as it began to develop new conceptions of progress that had little to do with blasting ever more men to the moon. Here is a narrative of the 1960s and 1970s unlike any told before, with the story of Apollo as the story of America itself in a time of dramatic cultural change.
Author: Matthew D. Tribbe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199313520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
'No Requiem for the Space Age' paints a portrait of a nation in the midst of questioning the very values that had guided it through the post-war years as it began to develop new conceptions of progress that had little to do with blasting ever more men to the moon. Here is a narrative of the 1960s and 1970s unlike any told before, with the story of Apollo as the story of America itself in a time of dramatic cultural change.
Author: Brandon R. Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190681365
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The moon landing of 1969 stands as an iconic moment for both the United States and humankind. The familiar story focuses on the journey of the brave astronauts, who brought home Moon rocks and startling photographs. But Apollo's full account includes the earthbound engineers, mounds of their crumpled paper, and smoldering metal shards of exploded engines. How exactly did the nation, step by difficult step, take men to the Moon and back? In The Apollo Chronicles, fifty years after the moon landing, author Brandon R. Brown, himself the son of an Apollo engineer, revisits the men and women who toiled behind the lights. He relays the defining twentieth-century project from its roots, bringing the engineers' work and personalities to bright life on the page. Set against the backdrop of a turbulent American decade, the narrative whisks audiences through tense deadlines and technical miracles, from President John F. Kennedy's 1961 challenge to NASA's 1969 lunar triumph, as engineers confronted wave after wave of previously unthinkable challenges. Brown immerses readers in key physical hurdles--from building the world's most powerful rockets to keeping humans alive in the hostile void of space--using language free of acronyms and technical jargon. The book also pulls back from the detailed tasks and asks larger questions. What did we learn about the Moon? And what can this uniquely innovative project teach us today?
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Category : Canadian periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1712
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Author: Boden Clarke
Publisher: Millefleurs
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Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
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Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Category : Sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Author: Peter Sculthorpe
Publisher: ABC Enterprises(Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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This autobiography focuses on the author's career as a composer. Discusses the various influences on his work, such as the gamelan of Indonesia, the court music of Japan, and the inspiration he finds in the Australian landscape. Describes many of his performances and compositions, and the responses to them. Includes a list of recordings and an index of names. The author's compositions include 'Mangrove' and 'Kakadu'. In 1990 he was appointed to the Order of Australia.
Author: National Gallery of Victoria. Council of Trustees
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Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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