TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harland,David M.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Paving the Way for Apollo 11
T2  - Springer Praxis Books
SN  - 9780387681320
U1  - 520 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York
KW  - PHYSICS
KW  - ASTROPHYSICS
KW  - ASTRONOMY
KW  - ASTRONOMY, OBSERVATIONS AND TECHNIQUES
KW  - POPULAR SCIENCE IN ASTRONOMY
KW  - EXTRATERRESTRIAL PHYSICS, SPACE SCIENCES
N1  - Astronomers' Moon -- Geologists' Moon -- The space age dawns -- Preparing Ranger -- The Apollo commitment -- Ranger struggles -- Ranger triumphs -- Soviet activity -- Developing Lunar Orbiter -- On the surface -- The Apollo zone -- Scratching the Moon -- Orbiters for science -- Tasting the Moon -- Apollo development -- Apollo picks up the pace
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68132-0
ER  -