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APOLLO’S PROJECT

“The greatest dream of the man “

Luigi Pizzimenti

FOREWARD by:

Charlie Duke

For the first time, all the history of APOLLO’S MISSIONS in a only book. All the technical cards and the astronauts’ biography The astronaut CHARLIE DUKE’S Foreward APOLLO 16 10° MAN OF THE MOON.

A volume of 416 pages,384 photos in white and black and a file of 16 colour pages

20/03/2010 TRADATE (VA)

THE PROGRAM OF EVENT

The program of the day 20 march 2010 : The meeting-place at 17.30 in FOAM13’s conference room in TRADATE

The presentation of the event is at 18.00 The discussion with the public The end of the presentation at 20.30

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About me

Progetto Apollo "Il sogno più grande dell'uomo"

Luciano of Samosata and of Icaro’s time, the fantasy of the man has gazed to the Space, to the infinity between the worlds and to the Moon. Our generations have seen to realize the ancient and the ambicious humanity’s dream: to leave the Earth and to put the foot on the desert Moon’s area. The dream has started at the end of 800’s and thanks to the extraordinary men like as Wernher Von Braun, and to the competition between the greatest world powers from 1957, “the year of throwing of the first Sputnik, on 1969 forty years old. We lived the days most extraordinary of the scientific human adventure. The conquest of the space and the landing on the Moon. From this legendary enterprise “forty years old” Luigi Pizzimenti, has dedicated a part of his life, to the collection of the data and the evidences of these days. Mr Luigi Pizzimenti offers an exciting book, like as a romance, with an extraordinary and precious collection of the data. From the beginning of the space travel, to the conquest of the Moon, on these pages of this book you will find the history of Apollo Project and the history of astronauts that contributed to realize it, with images, report, technique files, curiosity of that all missions that have returned most little our planet and most large spaces, that open to the human’s intelligence. It’s an only book of his genre, it’s complete enchanting, indispensable for which has been the witness of these days and above all indispensable for the young men that want to know in particulary the man’s greatest adventure.


THE FOAM13’S PRESIDENT IS ROBERTO CRIPPA He presents the history of the observatory


GIUSEPPE PALUMBO He is the moderator and the responsible of events in FOAM13; he presents the guests and their curriculum vitae.

ANTONIO LO CAMPO He is the journalist of the “ LA STAMPA” AND OF THE “ NUOVO ORIONE”

GIUSEPPE MACALLI He is the responsible of the auxiliary telescopes FOAM13

LUIGI PIZZIMENTI The author of the book.

FEDERICO MANZINI He is the responsible of the scientific activity.

There is the FOAM13 STAFF who have taken part to the organization and realization of the manifestation: “APOLLO’s PROJECT”


Before going away, LUIGI PIZZIMENTI, sign us our gold book of the famous guests.


Lo Campo and Pizzimenti	Crippa and Pizzimenti


TV interview	Baccini's collection

Pizzimenti and Baccini	Lunar Module Signed


Entrance to the observatory	The original page signed by KONSTANTIN E. TIOLKOVSKJ

APOLLO A7L MOON SUIT For the event it will be exposed during the presentation of the book, a replica of the Buzz Aldrin’S space-suit which has used during the Apollo11 Mission,it has been realized by Luigi Pizzimenti.


VIDEO 1 VIDEO 2 credit: FOAM13 Bruno Moretti


THE RELATION OF THE EVENT 20 MARCH 2010 The first national presentation of the book “APOLLO PROJECT” by Luigi Pizzimenti On Saturday 20 march at FOAM13 conference room, it has been a great success of the public and the interest where it has been presented in national preview,the book” Apollo Project”. The greatest dream of the man written by Mr. Luigi Pizzimenti. On this occasion it was present the author of the book,he is esteemed for the ESA (European Spatial Agency) for the NASA (American Spatial Agency),and also he is the member of the PLANETARY SOCIETY;Luigi Pizzimenti has dedicated a part of his life to get togheter the evidences and the data about the spatial age, particularly about the diffusion of the man’s history on the moon. He has lots of informations about Apollo Project for this book.This book tells not only about the history of powerful launching rockets and about brilliant solutions to all problems that a mission involves,but it tells also the history of men; they tell thanks to the evidences of the NASA’s archives and besides in this book there are their emotions and secrets transmitted to the author. Like a program there was: ROBERTO CRIPPA ( President FOAM13),he presented the history of the observatory of TRADATE GIUSEPPE PALUMBO ( The responsible of events in FOAM13),he was the moderator of the event. The experts were: FEDERICO MANZINI(He is the responsible of the scientific activity FOAM13) GIUSEPPE MACALLI(He is the responsible of the auxiliary telescopes FOAM13) ANTONIO LO CAMPO(he is the journalist of the LA STAMPA and of the NUOVO ORIONE and he is the expert of astronautics). In conference room there was a replica of the BUZZ ALDRIN’s space –suit, it has been realized by MR.LUIGI PIZZIMENTI. It has been a great success for the adult and young public. Besides MR. MARCO BACCINI has brought a series of objects used in the missions,and astronautic models signed by all space men. At that time of the missions MR BACCINI was the correspondent of the swiss television. There were many objects of the historical value at FOAM13,but the most interesting objects were the original manuals of flight,a star map used by Apollo11 for the navigation on the moon and a scale model 1:96 of the launching rocket SATURN V signed by Apollo Project’s space men. All these objects could stay in every museum of the world.
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