How to Find the Apollo Landing Sites
This book is for anyone who wants to be able to connect the history of lunar exploration to the Moon visible above. It addresses what Apollo equipment and experiments were left behind and what the Apollo landings sites look like now. Each Apollo mission i
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How to Find the Apollo Landing Sites
The Patrick Moore
The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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How to Find the Apollo Landing Sites
James L. Chen With Graphics Contributions by Adam Chen
James L. Chen Gore, VA, USA
ISSN 1431-9756 ISSN 2197-6562 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-06455-0 ISBN 978-3-319-06456-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-06456-7 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014939031 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Dedicated to my loving parents, Vung Tsung and Lurene Chen, without whom I would never have been able to write this book. I miss them.
President John F. Kennedy’s May 25, 1961 Speech
President John F. Kennedy addressing Joint Session of Congress 5/25/61. Courtesy of NASA
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President John F. Kennedy’s May 25, 1961 Speech
President John F. Kennedy Excerpt from his speech delivered before a joint session of Congress May 25, 1961 First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more i
