The twelve books in the Apollo Photo Archive series are the most comprehensive pictorial documentation of the American moon landing programme ever published. Each volume contains more than 750 photos and detailed captions illustrating all aspects of these historic flights. The series begins with this volume, which contains more than 500 photos of the fatal Apollo 1 tragedy and covers the next eleven missions, including the first six moon landings. From Apollo 7 to Apollo 17, each volume covers the arrival and assembly of the rocket and spacecraft, the selection and training of the crew, the rollout to the launch pad, pre-flight activities, the countdown, launch, the flight itself, the splashdown, and the subsequent appearances of the crew and related activities. The first manned mission planned as part of the Apollo programme also brought with it the first tragedy: no US astronaut had ever died aboard a spacecraft before. The command module of Apollo 1 caught fire on the launch pad, killing all three astronauts on board.
Author
Pickering, J. L./Bisney, John/Hengeveld, Ed
Title
Apollo 1 in Photographs
Details
English text, 520 bw- and colour photos, large format. 272 pages.
State
new
Subtitle
The Apollo Photo Archive
Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 77 Lower Valley Road PA 19310 Atglen, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
