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| Author(s): | D. Shayler |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| ISBN: | 1852335750 |
| Format: | softback |
| 344pp | |
| Price: | £24.50, $44.95, €39.95 |
| Review Date: | 04 September 2002 |
| Review: | This book is the story of Apollo missions that never happened in the 1970s and 1980s, looking at what might have happened if they had flown and who the astronauts might have been – the wasted opportunities and lost dreams. The plan, in the early 1960s, was to use Apollo hardware for other missions: extended flights in Earth orbit complementing exploration of the Moon, evolving into the first manned planetary expeditions to Mars. Here the author tells how the lunar hardware was adapted to meet other objectives and describes the unflown mission of Apollo 1, the lost moonwalks of Apollo 13, and the cancelled moon shots of Apollos 18, 19 and 20. |