Before This Decade Is Out...: Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program

By Glen E. Swanson

Book Overview

This collection of oral histories of the Saturn/Apollo program recounts the unique adventure of the lunar landing programme as witnessed by some of the political leaders, engineers, scientists and astronauts who made it such a success. It includes recollections from James Webb, the NASA administrator whose political connections to Washington extended back to the New Deal of the 1930s; rocket pioneer and architect of the Saturn V rocket Wernher von Braun; the resolute Robert Gilruth, director of the Houston centre; the engineering iconoclast Maxime Faget, whose designs of spacecraft made flights to the moon possible; and astronauts such as Harrison Schmitt and Charles Duke.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813025370
• ISBN13: 9780813025377
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"