NASA's Moon Program: Paving the Way for Apollo 11 [Paperback]

In 'Paving the Way for Apollo 11' David Harland explains the lure of the Moon to classical philosophers, astronomers, and geologists, and how NASA set out to investigate the Moon in preparation for a manned lunar landing mission. It focuses particularly on the Lunar Orbiter and Surveyor missions.

With high resolution color scans from NASA/original Hasselblad film, this colorful book brings to life the flight detail of the Apollo missions. It is the first published account accessible to enthusiasts who wish to know what transpired during the missions.

David Harland here initiates a series of books on NASAs Moon Program of the 1960s and early 1970s. Presented chronologically, NASAs Moon Program  The Early Years will outline the Mercury and Gemini manned missions, the unmanned lunar probes and the Apollo missions leading up to Apollo 11, covering that mission only as a postscript. The First Men on the Moon  The Story of Apollo 11, released in 2006 is devoted solely to that mission. Apollo  The Definitive Sourcebook, published in 2006, covered all the missions, including the unmanned tests, in an encyclopedic style which included many facts and figures. Exploring the Moon  The Apollo Expeditions, published in 1999, focused on the final three Apollo missions, and covered only their activities on the lunar surface. A fully re-illustrated second edition with color illustrations was released in 2008. The individual mission books in this series will relate to the planning, flight and results, and are written in the same style as The First Men on the Moon  The Story of Apollo 11, i.e. using dialog from the in-flight transcripts (including some conversations never broadcast) to bring their stories to life. David Harland will later cover the other five missions that landed on the Moon, concluding by 2012  the 40^th anniversary of the last l“.