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Footprints on a Faraway World

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Space exploration in the 1960s was dominated by the “space race” between the United States and the Soviet Union to land a first human on the Moon. While the Soviet program resulted in failure, Apollo 11 successfully landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface of the Moon. Six more Apollo missions were to follow of which five were successful. This chapter describes both the American and Soviet lunar landing programs, all the way to the final human mission to date, Apollo 17, which took place in 1972.

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  1. Space Data Resources & Information, LLC, Golden, CO, USA

    Leonard David

  2. College of Aviation/Chair, Space Operations Program, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA

    Andrew Aldrin

  3. Space Operations Program, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA

    Peter Eckart

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  1. Space Operations Program, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA

    Peter Eckart

  2. College of Aviation / Space Operations Program, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA

    Andrew Aldrin

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  1. Space Data Resources & Information, LLC, Golden, CO, USA

    Leonard David

  2. Aldrin Space Institute, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA

    Peter Eckart

  3. Aldrin Space Institute, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA

    Andrew Aldrin

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David, L., Aldrin, A., Eckart, P. (2023). Footprints on a Faraway World. In: Eckart, P., Aldrin, A. (eds) Handbook of Lunar Base Design and Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05323-9_58-1

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