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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings

byEarl Swift

Earl Swift uses Across the Airless Wilds to investigate the Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings through a carefully framed historical account. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of history and technology & engineering. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

CUSTOM HOUSE

Publication date

Jul 06, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

384

ISBN

9780062986535