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This book tells the story of Apollo 11, starting with crew selection and training, the choice of the landing site, and the assembly of the space vehicle, then a detailed account of the mission, featuring the lunar landing and moonwalk, and a review of how our knowledge of the Moon's history was revolutionised as a result. The story is enlivened by dialogue between the astronauts in space and the flight controllers in Mission Control.

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Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook by Richard W. Orloff, David M. Harland (April 2006)

This book provides an overview of the origins of the Apollo program and descriptions of the ground facilities, launch vehicles and spacecraft that will serve as an invaluable single-volume sourcebook for space enthusiasts, space historians, journalists, and programme-makers on radio and TV. It supplements other books that have focused on the politics and management of the Apollo program, the astronauts, and their training and exploits. (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration) (Paperback)

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Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space
by Harrison H. Schmitt  (November 2005)

The US announced in 2004 that they would return to the moon. In this book Lunar experts Alan Binder, Andy Chaikin, Yoji Kondo, Courtney Stadd, Frank White and many others make the case for our return, point out different ways to do it and explain just what to do when we get there. The author, Harrison Schmitt was the 12th and last human to have stepped on the Moon.

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Authorized biographer James Hansen draws on flight logs, family and Nasa archives and over 125 original interviews with key participants. This book vividly recreates Armstrong's life and career in flying, from the heights of honour earned as a naval aviator, test pilot and astronaut, to the dear personal price paid by Armstrong and, even more so, by his wife and children, for his dedication to his vocation. It is a unique portrait of a great but reluctant hero.

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This book examines how the exploration of space, specifically a commercial base on the Moon and Mars would transform our economies on the Earth as surely as the discovery of the New World transformed the old world of Europe.  From Platinum Group Metals for fuel cells, manufacturing high tech metals and robots to the building of a fusion reactor, the Moon holds great promise for a high tech manufacturing future.

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Paolo Ulivi provides a well-paced, rapidly moving, balanced, even-handed account of lunar exploration as a popular history. He covers the unmanned programmes, e.g. Ranger, and other American probes in the late '50s and in the later chapters he looks at recent lunar exploration and future plans for the same. It's a book that will be perfect for an enthusiast or someone coming to the story for the first time, as it does not include excessive technical depth. Uniquely drawing on recently declassified documents, detail of Chinese lunar exploration projects is provided, as well as nuclear lunar weapons of the '50s developed by the super powers, Soviet Russia and the United States.

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Memoir of Gene Cernan years at NASA. Gene Cernan covers his entire astronaut career, from his first flight on Gemini 9 to Apollos 10 and 17. This is not just another Apollo memoir, but an eloquently heartfelt homage to the golden days of space exploration, with frank insights, from the man who has spent the most time orbiting or studying the moon from its surface.

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In 1999, Andrew Smith was interviewing Charlie Duke, astronaut and moon walker, for the Sunday Times UK. During the interview the telephone rang and Charlie left the room to answer it. When he returned, some twenty minutes later, he seemed visibly upset. It seemed that he'd just heard that, the previous day, one of his fellow moon walkers, the astronaut Pete Conrad, had died. In Moondust Andrew sets out to interview all the remaining astronauts who walked on the moon, and to find out how their lives were changed for ever by what had happened. 

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Apollo 11: First Men on the Moon
by Robert Godwin (September 2005)
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Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes (Hardcover)
by Billy Watkins (December 30, 2005)
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Destination Moon (Hardcover) by Rod Pyle (November 2005)
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Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon by Charles J. Byrne (May 2005)
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Reaching for the Moon by Buzz Aldrin, Wendell Minor (Illustrator) (Reading level: Ages 9-12) (May 2005)
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Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles by Roger E. Bilstein
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The Moon and How to Observe It (Astronomers' Observing Guides) (Paperback) by Peter Grego (September 2005)
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Virtual LM : A Pictorial Essay of the Engineering and Construction of the Apollo Lunar Module by Scott P Sullivan 
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