Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael Collins, Charles a. Lindbergh (Foreword by), Michael Collins (Preface by)Publish date:2019-04-16Pages:528
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374537760ISBN-10:374537763UPC:9780374537760Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Space Science, United StatesBook Topic:Space Exploration, 20th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCVM3Y8XFP
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys
Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moon
The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events--technical and spiritual--of our...Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374537760ISBN-10:374537763UPC:9780374537760Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Space Science, United StatesBook Topic:Space Exploration, 20th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCVM3Y8XFP
Michael Collins (1930-2021) was an astronaut, one of 24 who have flown to the moon. A West Point graduate, he was an Air Force jet-fighter pilot and a test-pilot before being recruited by NASA in 1963 as a member of the third astronaut group selected for the Apollo moon project. Lieutenant Colonel Collins flew in the Gemini 10 space mission, orbiting the earth forty-three times in 1966, and...
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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50th Anniversary Edition
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