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ISBN Number: 9780801874406
Subtitle: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program
Editor: Launius, Roger D.
Author: Beattie, Donald A.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Subject: History
Subject: Aeronautics & Astronautics
Subject: Scientific Instruments
Edition Description: Paperback
Series: New Series in NASA History
Publication Date: July 2003
Cover Type: Paperback
Written in: English
Illustrations: Y
Number of Pages: 301
Book Size: 896x636x83 116
"Transports the reader behind NASAs facade, and into the 1960s' politics, planning sessions, turf battles, camaraderie, and jealousies of the world's major space agency. An absorbing, insightful, and revealing critical history." — The Observatory Synopsis:
How did science get aboard the Apollo rockets, and what did scientists do with the space allotted to them? Taking Science to the Moon describes, from the perspective of NASA headquarters, the struggles that took place to include science payloads and lunar exploration as part of the Apollo program. Donald A. Beattie — who served at NASA from 1963 to 1973 in several management positions and finally as program manager, Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments — here supplies a detailed, insider's view of the events leading up to the acceptance of science activities on all the Apollo missions.
