{"product_id":"apollo-10-in-photographs","title":"Apollo 10 in Photographs","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eReaders will enjoy more than 800 images of the 1969 Apollo 10 mission.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe Apollo Photo Archive series comprises the most comprehensive pictorial record of America’s moon-landing program ever published.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThis fifth volume covers Apollo 10, which occurred in May 1969. The crew of Apollo 10, Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, and John Young, all were veterans of prior spaceflights. On this mission, they repeated many of the same tests involving the lunar module that were carried out by the crew of Apollo 9, but this time while orbiting the moon. Apollo 10 proved that the hardware worked within the lunar gravitational field.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe 12-volume Apollo Photo Archive features images of spacecraft and rocket assembly; crew background and training; the countdown, launch, mission, and splashdown; and subsequent crew appearances and activities. This volume, \u003cem\u003eApollo 10 in Photos\u003c\/em\u003e, includes more than 800 images, of which many pre- and postflight photos have never been published.[AuthorName]By J.L. Pickering and John Bisney and With Ed Hengeveld[\/AuthorName][AuthorBio]\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 14.6667px;\"\u003eJ. L. Pickering\u003c\/strong\u003e, who has amassed the world's largest private archive of US human space flight images, has been conducting historical photo research on the US space program for nearly 50 years. This includes assembling, studying, and organizing a personal collection of more than 250,000 prints, transparencies, and digital files. Today he serves as a resource for authors, museums, astronauts, and others. He lives in Illinois. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 14.6667px;\"\u003eJohn Bisney\u003c\/strong\u003e is an author, journalist, and retired network news correspondent who covered the space program for more than 30 years for CNN, the Discovery Science Channel, RKO, and SiriusXM Radio. He witnessed more than 60 space shuttle launches and was one of the few broadcasters at the 1986 \u003cem style=\"font-size: 14.6667px;\"\u003eChallenger \u003c\/em\u003edisaster. He holds a master of arts degree in journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He lives in the Tampa Bay, Florida, area.[\/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]over 810 color and b\/w photos[\/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][\/CoAuthor][SubTitle]The Apollo Photo Archive[\/SubTitle][ColorPattern]over 810 color and b\/w photos[\/ColorPattern]","brand":"Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":48737187463417,"sku":"9780764373268","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0577\/7224\/5178\/files\/9780764373268.jpg?v=1785489772","url":"https:\/\/schifferbooks.com\/products\/apollo-10-in-photographs","provider":"Schifferbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}