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Mission Moon 3-D: A New Perspective on
the Space Race, by David J. Eicher and
Brian May (with foreword by Charlie Duke
and afterword by Jim Lovell), presents the
story of the historic lunar landings and the
events that led up to them, told through
text and three-dimensional images.
Mission Moon 3-D contains new and
unique stereoscopic images of the Apollo
Moon landings to show what it was like to
walk on the lunar surface. The triumph of
the Apollo 11 Moon landing takes center
stage, with detailed stories and visually
stunning images from the lunar missions
that followed. The book includes 150
stereo photos of the Apollo mission and
space race — the largest group ever
published — and presents photos never
seen before in stereo.
The book delivers a comprehensive tale
of the space race. New stories appear
from the astronauts, including Jim Lovell’s
anecdotes about the perilous return of
Apollo 13.
Mission Moon 3-D also includes a
history of the special and musical
movements of the 1960s and beyond
that transformed the world, from
Vietnam and Woodstock to Live Aid.
Don’t miss out on this unique treasure.WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 35Grumman, worked on the problem for a
day and proposed pressurizing the tunnel
connecting the LM and the command
module just prior to reentry. This, they
proposed, would push the two craft away
from each other. They communicated
their slide-rule calculations to Mission
Control, who sent them on to the astro-
nauts. The procedure worked.
With Apollo 13 approaching home,
the world watched, bound by hope. The
sustained crisis brought people of all
nations together as everyone wished for
the astronauts’ safe return. News reports
became ever more frantic, and despite
the constant analysis, all that could now
be done was to wait and hope.
As the crew moved toward Earth,
they first separated the service module,
pushed away from it using the LM’s
thrusters, and then photographed the
damage on the service module as the two
crafts inched apart. They were stunned
to see an entire panel on the side of the
service module missing. Safely back
within the command module, the crew
then jettisoned the LM, and, within
Odyssey, began reentry into Earth’s
atmosphere. The blackout with Apollo
13 lasted six minutes, longer than
expected, which heightened the drama
on the ground terrifically.
But then, in a f lash, communications
returned, the craft was spotted, and
Odyssey made a splashdown, its chutes
out, in the Pacific Ocean, southeast of
American Samoa. The amphibious
assault ship, USS Iwo Jima, picked up
the crew, and the world celebrated.
In the end, the most dangerous circum-
stance in space exploration ended with
a triumph. The astronauts missed walk-
ing on the Moon, but they lived to
walk again on Earth. Lessons from
this drama would help fuel the momen-
tum of the Apollo
missions to
come.Astronomy Editor David J. Eicher is the author of 23 books on
science and history. Brian May is an astronomer and founding
member and guitarist of the legendary rock band Queen.
This story is adapted from Mission Moon 3-D: A New
Perspective on the Space Race, by David J. Eicher and
Brian May, foreword by Charlie Duke, afterword by Jim Lovell,
© 2018 by London Stereoscopic Co. and MIT Press, Boston.