آپولو: راهنمای تصویری بزرگ‌ترین مأموریت بشر

This attractively produced and beautifully designed factbook gives an account of each mission, including unmanned missions, Apollo-Soyuz and Skylab. It also provides a gazetteer of astronaut Moonwalkers, including fascinating information about their education and motivation, a breakdown of the spacecraft, rockets and ground equipment used on the programme, and a collection of statistics, facts and infographics, for instance a splashdown map, info about the solar system's other moons, speed comparisons and a pull-out flight plan. When President Kennedy announced the US Apollo programme in 1961 he was fighting back against the Russian achievement of making Yuri Gagarin the first man in space. The 17 Apollo missions between 1961 and 1972 reasserted the USA's world leadership in the field, with the first moonwalk taking place from Apollo 11 in 1969, when Neil Armstrong was the first to land followed by Buzz Aldrin. The final Moonwalkers, and the last to travel beyond low-earth orbit for 50 years at the present time, took place in 1972 with Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt completing the actual walk. They brought back the largest haul of samples, and their pilot Ronald Evans became the astronaut to have spent the longest amount of time in the moon's orbit. Not all moon expeditions were successful, and the Apollo 13 mission was aborted when an oxygen tank exploded. The spacecraft continued onward to the moon and half orbited it in order to gain the momentum to break free of its gravity. On the return journey, the astronauts had to create a working component to filter out excessive CO2 in their cabin. Apollo 14 aimed to redress these problems but itself only just avoided disaster owing to a faulty signal which had to be rebooted. Illustrations, infographics, and little-known facts about NASA's Apollo program and the 1969 moon landing. July 20, 1969, marked one of the greatest achievements of mankind—the moon landing. In his infographic-packed book, Apollo: A Graphic Guide to Mankind's Greatest Mission , Zack Scott recounts the entire journey of the Apollo space program. Unlike previous books on this topic, Apollo illustrates the tiniest details of how man came to walk on the moon, paying particular attention to many of the lesser-known facts about the mission. Artful infographics throughout focus on a wide range of details for space-lovers to obsess over—astronaut weights, mission insignia and spacecraft call signs, fuel consumption stats, splashdown sites around the world, and much, much more. A fresh, lively approach to the subject, Apollo is the perfect combination of science, design, math, and space. July 20, 1969, marked one of the greatest achievements of mankind--the moon landing. In his infographic-packed book, Apollo: A Graphic Guide to Mankind's Greatest Mission, Zack Scott recounts the entire journey of the Apollo space program. Unlike previous books on this topic, Scott illustrates the tiniest details of how man came to walk on the moon, paying particular attention to many of the lesser known facts about the mission. Artful infographics throughout focus on a wide range of details that space-lovers will obsess over--astronaut weights, mission insignia and spacecraft call signs, fuel consumption stats, splashdown sites around the world, and much, much more. A fresh, hip approach to the subject, Apollo is the perfect combination of science, design, math, and space.