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The Apollo Missions

The Incredible Story of the Race to the Moon

David Baker

9781788887977
192 pages
Arcturus Publishing Limited
Overview
July 2019 will see the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing by astronauts from Apollo 11.
Author Bio
Dr David Baker worked with NASA on the Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle programmes between 1965 and 1990. He has written more than 100 books on space flight, aviation and military technology and is the former editor of Jane's Space Directory and Jane's Aircraft Upgrades. In 1986 he was made a member of the International Academy of Astronautics by NASA manned flight boss George Mueller and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the U.S. Air Force Association. He received the 1998 Rolls-Royce Award for Aerospace Journalist of the Year and, in 2005, was a recipient of the Arthur C Clarke Award. In October 2017, he received the American Astronautical Society's Frederick I. Ordway III award "for a sustained excellence in space coverage, as well as engagement in the early U.S. space program". Baker is currently a fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and editor of the monthly Spaceflight magazine.