Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Journal
by Eric M. Jones
Publisher: NASA 1995
Number of pages: 467
Description:
Sending humans to the Moon was arguably the most difficult technological undertaking in all of history. For sure, the best of America's scientists and engineers were taxed to the limit in order to accomplish nine manned flights to the Moon...
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