Buy Their Audio now and monitor Their Audio deals remotely using browser, xml, email, to save on Their Audio. Environmental Sound Artists In Their Own Words 9780190234621 | Brand New. $38.95. Audio CD: They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in Glittering, Swirlies. In Their Own Words:Space Race (Apollo Gemini Mercury Missions) 7 Audio CDs Narrated award-winning actor Gary Sinise (who also portrayed Ken Mattingly in Apollo 13) When We Left Earth is a 2008 mini-series that tells the story of the NASA space age, starting with I've read a fair number of books on the glory days of NASA's manned space program, from Mercury through Gemini and Apollo, and though this book focuses mostly on the moon landing missions (as should be obvious from the title), when asked which single volume is best for the general, non-technical reader to get a comprehensive, readable history of the space program, I'd recommend this one. The Space Race Timeline (1945 - 1991) Interesting Cold War Timeline and facts for kids are detailed below together with details of important events encompassing important dates covering the history of Sputnik, Project Mercury, the first men in space, the Gemini Program and the Features eight Apollo astronauts who intimately share their experience of going to the moon, describing what happened to them while they were there, and how their lives have been shaped the experience in the 20 years after. Director: Mickey Lemle | Stars: Buzz Exactly 50 years ago on October 11, 1968, America returned to space with its most ambitious manned mission up to that time. Born in the aftermath of a fiery tragedy, Apollo 7 tends to get A title caption reads "The Apollo Years Gemini." [Indistinct radio chatter] A split THE SUCCESSFUL MERCURY PROGRAM GEMINI MANNED MISSIONS. COVER OF HIS SPACECRAFT AND ITS LEGACY TO SPACE FLIGHT. The Docking Target appears, with its hanging shroud, looking like an alligator Audio CD's and a DVD on the Apollo, Gemini and Mercury Customer Review Technological Impact of the Apollo Program 1/5 National Aeronautics and Space Administration *AP is a trademark owned the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product. The San Diego Air & Space Museum has posted an event report with photographs. More than 500 guests celebrated the 45th Anniversary of the historic Apollo 13 Mission at the San Diego Air & Space Museum on Saturday, March 21 during a spectacular evening that honored the brave men of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs. Retrouvez Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and That was not true in the beginning of the space program. And could we somehow build not just on our own years of experience but the courage and Johnson had taken me from Kraft's few words on what he wanted done to a point Moon landing: 11 questions and answers on the Apollo mission to have the US "catch up to and overtake" the Soviet Union in the "space race. Left in the Apollo Lunar Module "Eagle" to make the first crewed landing on its surface. His first space flight was in 1966 on Gemini 12 during which he spent In Their Own Words. Text Size. Our First Lunar Program: What did we get from Apollo? Ten manned Gemini missions were flown, developing the technological and operational capability needed for the following lunar program. However, the Gemini astronauts carried out many scientific experiments, in addition to practicing various space-flight These words, part of a 1962 speech President John F. Kennedy, are well The Apollo 11 mission is dramatized in the sixth episode, Mare Tranquilitatis, new cast, but also a completely different angle on the larger story of the space race. Covers four years and the entirety of the Mercury and Gemini Like many of my generation, I was enthralled the flights of Mercury, Gemini, and especially Apollo. As those ghostly images came down from the moon, improving on each flight, I stayed home from high school to savor every moment the networks were willing to show us (at the expense of the daytime soaps, which eventually won the airtime battle). Now you can relive the countdown with In Their Own Words: The Space Race The Apollo, Mercury, and Gemini Missions, an unparalleled 7 CD audio suite that provides unfettered access to authentic Mission Control transmissions and interviews with the men behind them. In Topics: Apollo, Mercury, Gemini, Nasa, Moon, Space Race Which of course didn't happen through a number of tragedies and some [00:17:00] deaths of Korolev, the lead engineer, and so on, but it is amazing to see these early bits of space flight in the first testing in Earth orbit of various things like Mercury and Gemini and leading up to Apollo and see all these little features, you know that you can national heroes and the leading symbols of the fledgling space pro gram.1 Even so, both NASA accomplishment. From his mind sprang the Mercury program. Rod Pyle is a producer, writer and director of documentary programmes that have been shown around the world, including Modern Marvels: Apollo 11 and In Their Own Words: The Space Race. Rod was formerly the Vice President of Communications for the World Space Foundation and the senior editor and contributor to their two publications, the His career spanned the entire Gemini and Apollo programs, from being the first Shelves: history-and-biography, space-program, american-history, memoir the commander of the last Apollo lunar mission -of his entire life, but with special one-man Mercury missions seemed like a distant history, and the two-man