The Truth about the Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Truth about the Moon write by Clayton Bess. This book was released on 1983. The Truth about the Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An African child is told several stories about the moon, but he still feels he has not learned the truth.
The Truth about the Moon
The Truth about the Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Truth about the Moon write by Clayton Bess. This book was released on 1992-10. The Truth about the Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An African child is told several stories about the moon, but he still feels he has not learned the truth.
Truth about the Moon
Truth about the Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Truth about the Moon write by Clayton Bess. This book was released on 1992. Truth about the Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An African child is told several stories about the moon but still he feels has not learned the truth. "Hoffman's fond, wry, phantasmagoric illustrations [are] not didactic, but a teasing, fittingly elusive quest for the truth beyond legend". -- Kirkus Reviews
Dark Side of the Moon
Dark Side of the Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark Side of the Moon write by Gerard Degroot. This book was released on 2006-11-01. Dark Side of the Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A selection of the History, Scientific American, and Quality Paperback Book Clubs For a very brief moment during the 1960s, America was moonstruck. Boys dreamt of being an astronaut; girls dreamed of marrying one. Americans drank Tang, bought “space pens” that wrote upside down, wore clothes made of space age Mylar, and took imaginary rockets to the moon from theme parks scattered around the country. But despite the best efforts of a generation of scientists, the almost foolhardy heroics of the astronauts, and 35 billion dollars, the moon turned out to be a place of “magnificent desolation,” to use Buzz Aldrin’s words: a sterile rock of no purpose to anyone. In Dark Side of the Moon, Gerard J. DeGroot reveals how NASA cashed in on the Americans’ thirst for heroes in an age of discontent and became obsessed with putting men in space. The moon mission was sold as a race which America could not afford to lose. Landing on the moon, it was argued, would be good for the economy, for politics, and for the soul. It could even win the Cold War. The great tragedy is that so much effort and expense was devoted to a small step that did virtually nothing for mankind. Drawing on meticulous archival research, DeGroot cuts through the myths constructed by the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations and sustained by NASA ever since. He finds a gang of cynics, demagogues, scheming politicians, and corporations who amassed enormous power and profits by exploiting the fear of what the Russians might do in space. Exposing the truth behind one of the most revered fictions of American history, Dark Side of the Moon explains why the American space program has been caught in a state of purposeless wandering ever since Neil Armstrong descended from Apollo 11 and stepped onto the moon. The effort devoted to the space program was indeed magnificent and its cultural impact was profound, but the purpose of the program was as desolate and dry as lunar dust.
Moon Hoax: Debunked!
Moon Hoax: Debunked! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moon Hoax: Debunked! write by Paolo Attivissimo. This book was released on 2013-10-13. Moon Hoax: Debunked! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A no-nonsense, fact-filled debunking of all the main "Moon hoax" conspiracy theories, collected in a single book. If you're an open-minded doubter, you'll find technically accurate but plain-English answers to your questions; if you're a space enthusiast or professional, you'll find a handy reference for dealing with the most obstinate hoax believers and for clarifying popular objections and misconceptions about the Moon landings. "Moon Hoax: Debunked!" is also an opportunity to rediscover and celebrate one of mankind's greatest voyages, which doesn't need conspiracy theories to be a fascinating adventure. For example, did you know how close to failure each flight actually came? Did you know that pictures of Playmates were smuggled to the Moon to prank the astronauts? Or that there was a secret Soviet plan to land a Russian on the Moon before the US? Paolo Attivissimo is a British-Italian science journalist, lifelong space enthusiast and contributor to NASA's Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.
