拍品 214
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[APOLLO PROGRAM]. "CHARIOTS FOR APOLLO" SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TWELVE APOLLO ASTRONAUTS

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  • ASTRONAUTICS DEPARTMENT HEAD OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FROM 1964 TO 1980
BROOKS, C.G., J. M. GRIMWOOD and L. S. SWENSON. Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft. Washington: GPO/NASA SP-4205, 1979. xvii, 538 pp. 10 by 7 inches. Original blue cloth. With Durant’s mailing label having his Chevy Chase, Maryland address affixed on the inside front endpaper.

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After the Second World War, Fredrick C. Durant, III, performed studies in rocketry and early spaceflight. He provided assistance during the 1958 effort to orbit the first United States satellite, Explorer I, which was led by Dr. Wernher von Braun. In 1964, he became assistant director and head of the newly form Astronautics Department of the Smithsonian Institute. He retired from the Smithsonian in 1980. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by TWELVE Apollo Astronauts with their individual Apollo flight number(s), on the frontispiece verso by: ALAN BEAN, WALT CUNNINGHAM, CHARLIE DUKE, GORDON COOPER, RICHARD GORDON, FRED HAISE, EDGAR MITCHELL, TOM STAFFORD, WALLY SCHIRRA and AL WORDEN on the frontispiece verso. SIGNED and INSCRIBED: “GENE CERNAN, Apollo X – XVII” on the half title page. SIGNED by BUZZ ALDRIN on the frontispiece photograph showing him walking on the lunar surface.

This NASA Special Publication (SP) provides historical details on the development and construction of the Apollo Command and Service Modules (CSM) by NASA and North American Aviation. Changes in Lunar mission architectures dictated changes to developments of the Lunar Module (LM) which was performed by the prime contractor for the LM, Grumman Aircraft of Bethpage, Long Island, New York.

Progress and results from actual spacecraft flights are covered including unmanned missions, then Apollo 7’s first manned flight of the CSM, and the first manned flight of the Lunar Module on Apollo 9. Information from these flights insured the success of the Apollo 8, 10 and 11 lunar flights, which have extensive mission descriptions.