Building The Apollo Capsules: An Engineer's Memoir Of The Moonshot Program And Its Debt To Hispanic Team Members

This firsthand account of the development of the Apollo 11 mission gives a behind-the-scenes look at the 1969 moon landing mission from an engineer's perspective. The technical problems and solutions of designing a capsule to carry three astronauts--Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins--safely to the moon and back are covered in detail from the author's point of view. The contributions of Latino personnel in the Apollo program are described.

• • Author: Jim De La Rosa
• • Publisher: Mcfarland
• • Publication Date: Oct 05, 2023
• • Number of Pages: 250 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1476687196
• • ISBN-13: 9781476687193