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Manned Lunar Landing And Return
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.
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.
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.
132 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2019
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March 17, 2020
Does a good job rescuing some rather obscure history in how lunar orbit rendezvous came to be the mode of choice in the Apollo program. I find that many are not familiar with Yuri Kondratuk's pioneering work, but in fairness, his most important work was not published until long after his death. The important work done at Vought is the focus of the book, and if it at times take a slightly polemic tone in doing so, that is understandable given how under-emphasized their role has been.
Accessibly written, but probably of interest primarily to those digging in to the details of Apollo. I do look forward to the companion book, publishing the then-classified and very obscure original Vought study.
Accessibly written, but probably of interest primarily to those digging in to the details of Apollo. I do look forward to the companion book, publishing the then-classified and very obscure original Vought study.
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