Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings (Swift Earl)(Pevná vazba) - diskuze

"Earl Swift lays out this great unsung saga with verve and magisterial sweep. --Hampton Sides, author of In the Kingdom of IceA unique and brilliant rediscovery of the final Apollo Moon landings, revealing that these extraordinary yet overlooked exploring expeditions--distinguished by the use of the revolutionary Lunar Roving Vehicle--deserve to be celebrated as a pinnacle of human adventure
8:36 p.m. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside the Nansen Crater. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon's left eye, landed at its edge, then driven nearly five miles farther to this desolate, boulder-strewn hole. As they gathered samples, they strode at the outermost edge of mankind's travels. This place, this moment, marked the
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