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The Apollo Chronicles by Brandon R. Brown, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Brandon R. Brown

Current price: $37.50
The Apollo Chronicles by Brandon R. Brown, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
The Apollo Chronicles by Brandon R. Brown, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

The Apollo Chronicles by Brandon R. Brown, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Brandon R. Brown

Current price: $37.50
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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 theircrumpled 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 tobright 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 previouslyunthinkable 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 learnabout the Moon? And what can this uniquely innovative project teach us today? | The Apollo Chronicles by Brandon R. Brown, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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