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Manned Lunar Landing And Return

Take a trip back to the 1950s when the Chance Vought Company, builders of some of America’s top fighter aircraft, were quietly figuring out how to get men to the moon using something they called Project MALLAR.

It is the story of a team of engineers who built some of the most sophisticated space simulators in the world, where almost all of the Mercury and Gemini astronauts learned the art of spaceflight. This same team produced the first serious plan to use modular spacecraft and a technique called Lunar Orbit Rendezvous to make it possible to get to the moon.

This book also reveals how for several years rocket genius Wernher von Braun overlooked his own ideas, before having them reintroduced back to him because of Project MALLAR, and how Vought’s fighter aircraft weaved in and out of the Apollo story and then contributed to almost every major airliner in the sky today. 

Included are rare illustrations, some from recently declassified reports, of the earliest designs for the rockets and spacecraft that led to the greatest technological achievement in human history.

In Manned Lunar Landing And Return, Robert Godwin takes the reader back to the time long before President Kennedy made his famous proclamation to reach for the moon and reveals one critical thread in the trail of genius which ended in the Sea of Traquility.

Even fifty years later there are still important stories waiting to be told about how humans first walked on another world; such as the one in this book.

“Reads like a novel. Replete with new discoveries. This book is seminal.”

David Baker, BIS Spaceflight May 2019

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Neil Armstrong , Apollo 11

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Captain Richard Gordon, Apollo 12

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Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot, Apollo 13

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Jim Lovell, Commander, Apollo 13

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Captain Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14

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Sir Patrick Moore

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Library Journal

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Tom Hanks, Actor Producer

“The most ambitious look at our space program to date.”

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The Corporation has a proud heritage as a producer of contemporary factual, productions. These are executed with faithful storytelling in a specialist genre blending the detailed record with the vision and motivation that has underpinned space development in our time.  General Astronautics has also helped create some of the finest hard science fiction in the history of cinema.

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Senator Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17

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Dave Williams, Shuttle Astronaut

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