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    Apollo 11 Manual: An Insight into the Hardware from the First Manned Mission to Land on the Moon (Hardback) By (author) Chris Riley, By (author) Phil Dolling

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    Short Description for Apollo 11 Manual On 20 July 1969, US astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. This title presents the story of the Apollo 11 mission and the 'space hardware' that made it possible. It looks at the evolution and design of the mighty Saturn V rocket, the Command and Service Modules, and the Lunar Module.
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    Title
    Apollo 11 Manual
    Subtitle
    An Insight into the Hardware from the First Manned Mission to Land on the Moon
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Chris Riley, By (author) Phil Dolling
    Physical properties
    Format: Hardback
    Number of pages: 196
    Width: 210 mm
    Height: 270 mm
    Thickness: 17 mm
    Weight: 816 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781844256839
    ISBN 10: 1844256839
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: TRA002000
    Dewey: 629.4540973
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T12.6
    BICMainSubject: TRP
    BISAC category code: TEC002000
    BISAC category code: SCI005000
    Illustrations note
    Illustrations (chiefly col.)
    Publisher
    HAYNES PUBLISHING GROUP
    Imprint name
    J H Haynes & Co Ltd
    Publication date
    01 January 2010
    Publication City/Country
    Somerset/GB
    Biographical note
    Dr Christopher Riley is a broadcaster and film-maker specialising in history and science documentaries. In 2004 he won the Sir Arthur Clarke award for the BBC1 blockbuster series Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets. His latest film In the Shadow of the Moon: The Story of the Apollo Astronauts, won the World Cinema Audience Award in 2007.
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    On July 20, 1969, US astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission that carried him and his two fellow astronauts on their epic journey marked the successful culmination of a quest that, ironically, had begun in Nazi Germany thirty years before. This is the story of the Apollo 11 mission and the ‘space hardware’ that made it all possible. Author Chris Riley looks at the evolution and design of the mighty Saturn V rocket, the Command and Service Modules, and the Lunar Module. He also describes the space suits worn by the crew, with their special life support systems. Launch procedures are described, ‘flying’ the Saturn V, navigation, course correction ‘burns’, orbital rendezvous techniques, flying the LEM, moon landing, moon walk, take-off from the moon, and earth re-entry procedure. Includes performance data, fuels, biographies of Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, Gene Kranz and Werner von Braun. Detailed appendices cover all of the Apollo missions, with full details of crews, spacecraft names and logos, mission priorities, moon landing sites, and the Lunar Rover.
    Table of contents
    Successful Haynes Manual format. Unique 'how it works' and 'how you fly it' guide to Apollo 11. Expertly explained by an award-winning film-maker. Stunning illustrations. Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing.