Appointment on the Moon

The full story of Americans in space from Explorer 1 to the lunar landing and beyond

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Appointment on the Moon

The full story of Americans in space from Explorer 1 to the lunar landing and beyond

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In Appointment on the Moon, Richard S. Lewis traces the story of America's venture in space from its beginnings shortly after World War II, through the Mercury and Gemini projects, and on to the Apollo 11 flight which lifted man out of his terrestrial home and set him on the road to the stars. [from the front matter]

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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
568

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New York

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
629.45/4
Library of Congress
TL789.8.U5 L46 1969

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 568 p. illus.
Number of pages
568

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5614703M
Internet Archive
appointmentonmoo00lewi
LCCN
77008795
Library Thing
599855

Excerpts

From the viewpoint that man is destined to expand beyond the Earth, as he has over the Earth, Project Apollo is one of the critical developments in human evolution. It lifted man out of the terrestrial nursery and set him on the road to the stars. It enlarged his habitat by adding to it another world with untapped resources, a world from which he could gain a better view of the universe, its origin and evolution, than ever before. It opened to man the entire solar system.
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Although the twentieth century cannot see any more clearly than could the fifteenth century where voyages to their respective New Worlds would lead, I believe that we can identify the lunar landing as an event in the expansion of our species. Apollo was a spectacular advance in transportation technology, which has been a function of biological and social development of Homo sapiens since the invention of the wheel. The lunar landing was motivated by the traditional pressures which have caused mankind to spread from the place of its origin as a species to the ends of the earth, from deserts to poles. These were the pressures of intraspecific competition and the compulsion to seek and explore, a built-in behavioral characteristic.
Page 540, added by contulmmiv. "Sets the narrative in the context of beliefs which frame the interpretation."

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