Richard Orloff is a historian of the Apollo program who, in 2000, compiled a review of the Apollo missions, supplemented by a comprehensive tabular statistical reference. This was published by NASA and is now out of print. David Harland is also a space historian who has studied and written extensively about the Apollo program.
14 Ebooks von David M. Harland
Richard W. Orloff & David M. Harland: Apollo
On 25 May 1961, John F Kennedy announced the goal of landing an American man on the Moon by the end of the decade. This challenge forced NASA to review the planned lunar landing of a three-man spaces …
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€74.89
David M. Harland: NASA’s Moon Program
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 …
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Englisch
€48.14
Paolo Ulivi & David M. Harland: Robotic Exploration of the Solar System
In Robotic Exploration of the Solar System, Paolo Ulivi and David Harland provide a comprehensive account of the design and management of deep-space missions, the spacecraft involved – some flown, ot …
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€48.14
David J. Shayler & David M. Harland: The Hubble Space Telescope
The highly successful Hubble Space Telescope was meant to change our view and understanding of the universe. Within weeks of its launch in 1990, however, the space community was shocked to find out t …
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€48.14
David J. Shayler & David M. Harland: Enhancing Hubble’s Vision
This book tells the story of the four missions to maintain Hubble’s successful operation. Between 1997 and 2009 these repaired, serviced and upgraded the instruments on the telescope to maintain …
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Englisch
€42.79
David M. Harland: Apollo 12 – On the Ocean of Storms
In July 1969 the ‘amiable strangers’ that made up the crew of the historic Apollo 11 flight successfully achieved the first manned lunar landing. Several months later, three close friends set off on …
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€64.19
Paolo Ulivi & David M. Harland: Robotic Exploration of the Solar System
Paolo Ulivi and David Harland provide in Robotic Exploration of the Solar System a detailed history of unmanned missions of exploration of our Solar System. The subject is treated from an engineering …
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Englisch
€58.84
David M. Harland & Ralph Lorenz: Space Systems Failures
In the 1960s and 1970s deep space missions were dispatched in pairs in case one was lost in launch or failed during its journey. Following the triumphs of the Viking landings on Mars in 1976 and both …
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€53.49
David M. Harland: Water and the Search for Life on Mars
Mars has long been believed to have been cold, dead and dry for aeons, but there is now striking new proof that not only was Mars a relatively warm and wet place in geologically recent times, but tha …
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€32.09
Paolo Ulivi & David M. Harland: Robotic Exploration of the Solar System
Paolo Ulivi and David Harland provide in Robotic Exploration of the Solar System a detailed history of unmanned missions of exploration of our Solar System. As in their previous book Lunar Exploratio …
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Englisch
€58.84
David M. Harland: Exploring the Moon
David Harland opens with a review of the robotic probes, namely the Rangers which returned television before crashing into the Moon, the Surveyors which ’soft landed‘ in order to investigate the natu …
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€48.14
David M. Harland: The Story of Space Station Mir
This successor edition picks up the story where the first edition left off in 1997, and runs through to Mir’s de-orbiting in March 2001, providing the definitive account of the Mir Space Station. The …
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€48.14
David M. Harland: The First Men on the Moon
On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth. One month later, President John F. Kennedy challenged the American nation to land a man on the Moon before the decade was out. O …
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€58.84
David M. Harland: Cassini at Saturn
Cassini At Saturn – Huygens Results brings the story of the Cassini-Huygens mission and their joint exploration of the Saturnian system right up to date. Cassini entered orbit around Saturn …
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€37.44
