EARLY LARGE FORMAT PUBLICATION SIGNED BY ELEVEN NASA ASTRONAUTS. MOON, Man's Greatest Adventure. New York: Abrams, 1973. 267 pp. 15 by 12 inches. Original blue cloth. On the color frontispiece, the iconic image of Aldrin on the lunar surface photographed by Armstrong, BOLDLY SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the former: "BUZZ ALDRIN, Apollo Eleven, July 20, 1969." Additionally SIGNED and INSCRIBED with their individual missions and/or flight titles by: ALAN BEAN, SCOTT CARPENTER, GORDON COOPER, WALT CUNNINGHAM, CHARLES M. DUKE, Jr., RICHARD GORDON FRED HAISE, EDGAR MITCHELL, WALLY SCHIRRA, and TOM STAFFORD on the title page. One of the earliest large format books about the Moon and general space exploration with beautiful color illustrations. The Space Age is covered year-by-year starting at 1957 with Sputnik, then includes Gagarin's flight, the Mercury Program, Gemini Program, and unmanned lunar orbiters and landers. Numerous pages are devoted to the three-man Project Apollo and the ultimate success of the first lunar landing – Apollo 11.
EARLY LARGE FORMAT PUBLICATION SIGNED BY ELEVEN NASA ASTRONAUTS. MOON, Man's Greatest Adventure. New York: Abrams, 1973. 267 pp. 15 by 12 inches. Original blue cloth. On the color frontispiece, the iconic image of Aldrin on the lunar surface photographed by Armstrong, BOLDLY SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the former: "BUZZ ALDRIN, Apollo Eleven, July 20, 1969." Additionally SIGNED and INSCRIBED with their individual missions and/or flight titles by: ALAN BEAN, SCOTT CARPENTER, GORDON COOPER, WALT CUNNINGHAM, CHARLES M. DUKE, Jr., RICHARD GORDON FRED HAISE, EDGAR MITCHELL, WALLY SCHIRRA, and TOM STAFFORD on the title page. One of the earliest large format books about the Moon and general space exploration with beautiful color illustrations. The Space Age is covered year-by-year starting at 1957 with Sputnik, then includes Gagarin's flight, the Mercury Program, Gemini Program, and unmanned lunar orbiters and landers. Numerous pages are devoted to the three-man Project Apollo and the ultimate success of the first lunar landing – Apollo 11.
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