Mission Control, This is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon

Review
Based on interviews with 28 astronauts, this history of the Apollo program masterfully describes the missions and personalizes them with astronauts' own words. --Kirkus

They effectively highlight the Apollo program's magnificent achievements, as well as its moments of tension and tragedy...the large-scale art adds a dazzling visual element to this grand commemoration. ---School Library Journal, starred review


Product Description
July 20, 1969, marked one of the climactic moments in our history—the day Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it is only one piece of a magnificent story. Mission Control, This Is Apollo, by the acclaimed Andrew Chaikin (author of A Man on the Moon, basis of the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon), recounts space history from the Mercury missions through Apollo 17 and beyond. It is illustrated with stunning full-color paintings by astronaut Alan Bean, who walked on the moon with Pete Conrad on Apollo 12 and has devoted his post-NASA life to creating art. Handsome, informative, and dramatic, this is no textbook—it is the tale of humankind’s greatest adventure in the last frontier: space.


About the Author
Andrew Chaikin lives in Arlington, Vermont.
Alan Bean lives in Houston, Texas.

Pro LCS: Live Communications Server Administration

Product Description

Pro LCS: Live Communications Server Administration will guide you on how to best leverage Microsofts Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS) to improve your business communications. This information-packed volume includes everything you need to know about LCS, but were afraid to ask. This includes all the different clients that you can utilize and how you can best deploy them.

This book comes loaded with handy hints and tips, useful real-world scenarios, and extensive walkthroughs aimed at getting you up and running as quickly and painlessly as possible. It even includes a complete discussion about setting up a pilot deployment and rolling out the final solution in your chosen environment. This book is the expert guide to LCS for administrators, systems integrators, architects, and product or project managers who want to get the most out of LCS.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #293227 in Books
* Published on: 2007-05-28
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 383 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Andrew Edney has been an IT professional for over 12 years and has over the course of his career worked for a range of high-tech companies, such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Fujitsu Services. He has a wide range of experience in virtually all aspects of Microsoft's computing solutions, having designed and architected large enterprise solutions for government and private sector customers. Over the years, Andrew has made a number of guest appearances at major industry events, presenting on a wide range of information systems subjects, such as an appearance at the annual Microsoft Exchange Conference in Nice where he addressed the Microsoft technical community on mobility computing. Andrew is currently involved in numerous Microsoft Beta programs, including next-generation Windows operating systems and next-generation Microsoft Office products, and actively participates in all Windows Media Center Beta programs.

Rui Maximo has 12 years of experiencing shipping over ten commercial software products for IBM and Microsoft from educational software to operating systems, mobile devices, and server products. Rui has been a lead program manager working in the Unified Communications Group since Live Communications Server 2003. He has been responsible for management of the Active Directory schema extensions; migration from Exchange 2000 IM; definition of supported topologies; design of the Admin Tools MMC, WMI, LcsSync, and MOM Pack; and work on VoIP before leading the Office Communicator Web Access Server product. He's played an important contributing role as a technical expert in developing the product's documentation, Microsoft Professional Exam for LCS 2005, and presenting at major conferences. Rui has been living in the Pacific Northwest and working at Microsoft for the past 10 years as a software design engineer and program manager.