- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Summary
- Deep within the rugged mountains above Simi Valley and standing tall against the desert landscape of southern New Mexico lie the once-majestic rocket test stands and research facilities that helped send men to the moon for the first time in 1969. Now silent for decades, many of these abandoned structures - and countless space research, astronaut training, and manufacturing facilities that dot the American landscape - lie crumbling in ruins, failing to achieve recognition for their role in the historic Apollo missions. These sites helped refine the Saturn V rocket engines that carried Apollo 11 to the moon, developed the equipment that allowed humans to survive in an oxygen-free environment, and tested the re-entry shields on the command module. This work examines this topic.
- Subject
- Note
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 31, 2017).
- ISBN
- 9780813053004
- OCLC
- EDZ0001719092
- Author
Westwood, Lisa, author.
- Title
The final mission : preserving NASA's Apollo sites / Lisa Westwood, Beth Laura O'Leary, and Milford Wayne Donaldson.
- Publisher
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2017.
- Type of Content
text
still image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience
Specialized.
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- Added Author
O'Leary, Beth Laura, author.
Donaldson, Milford Wayne, author.