"To The Moon" Time-Life Book and 6 Vinyl LPs

Time Life Records “To The Moon” picture book and 6 vinyl records
Publication date 1969-01-01
 
 
Topics nasa, apollo, gemini, mercury, moon landing
 
Dedication: To the yet unborn generations of the world who, in centuries to come, will be able to listen and understand that this extraordinary achievement was accomplished by "average men" like their fathers . . . Michael Kapp.
 
6 LP audio transfer.
Side 1 – Prologue: The First message from man on the moon… The beginning of rocketry . . . Tsiolkovsky.
Side 2 – Prologue: World WAR II ends… US seizes remaining V-2’s and the German rocket team surrenders to the Americans.
Side 3 – Mercury: National Space and Aeronautics Administration is set up under the Eisenhower Administration.
Side 4 – Mercury: U.S. Space Probes… Russia photographs the moon with Lunik III… President Kennedy.
Side 5 – Mercury: Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 makes a successful flight and sinks.
Side 6 – Mercury: Slayton is grounded . . . Ranger 4 to the dark side of the Moon.
Side 7 – Gemini: Russia, three-man capsule . . . Vietnam war escalates . . . Russian spacewalk.
Side 8 – Gemini: Armstrong and Scott dock with an Agenda but tumble end over end and must make an emergency landing.
Side 9 – Apollo: Grissom, White and Chaffee die in a ground test for the first manned Apollo.
Side 10 – Apollo: Schirra, Eiselle and Cunningham… the first manned flight with a Saturn IB.
Side 11 – Apollo: McDivitt, Scott and Schweickart prepare first manned test in space for LM… In Earth orbit, perform crucial docking.
Side 12 – Apollo: At Cape Kennedy during the long countdown Liftoff for Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins . . . Trans-lunar injection . . .Separation of Columbia and Eagle.
 
Used.  Very good condition.