Return to Earth

Colonel Edwin E (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr.; Wayne Warga

ISBN 10: 0394488326 / ISBN 13: 9780394488325

Published by Random House, 1973

About this Item

Dust jacket has a one inch tear at the front bottom corner, is bumped at the top and bottom of the spine and has a piece missing at the back top edge. Dust jacket is now protected in mylar. Book pages are clean with no marks. Bookseller Inventory BS/NHT6407 102018.

Seller Inventory # 006407

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Return to Earth
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394488326
• ISBN 13: 9780394488325
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

A book written by Buzz. American astronaut who became the second person to walk on the Moon. Aldrin graduated with honors from West Point in 1951 and subsequently flew jet fighters in the Korean War. Upon returning to academic work, he earned a Ph.D. in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, devising techniques for manned space rendezvous that would be used on future NASA missions including the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Aldrin was selected for astronaut duty in October 1963 and in November 1966 established a new spacewalk duration record on the Gemini 9 mission. As backup Command Module pilot for Apollo 8 he improved operational techniques for astronautical navigation star display. Then, on July 20, 1969, Aldrin and Neil Armstrong made their historic Apollo 11 moonwalk.