Children of Apollo: The First Woman on the Moon

by Mark R Whittington

Overview

December, 1975, Apollo 23 lifts off and Wendy Pendleton fulfills her dream of becoming the first woman on the moon. She and her crewmate Ray McPherson explore the lunar south-pole and its rich deposits of ice. But an act of sabotage may mean that the two astronauts who came to the moon in peace for all mankind may rest in peace on the lunar surface. Their only hope is a daring rescue mission using a commercial space shuttle outfitted for an emergency lunar voyage,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781500919078
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	08/21/2014
Series:	Children of Apollo , #3
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Mark R. Whittington is a writer and computer analyst residing in Houston, Texas. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel of suspense Nocturne which he coauthored with his wife, Chantal, The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories, Gabriella's War, and The Man from Mars: The Asteroid Mining Caper.

In his time he has ridden a camel in the shadow of the Great Pyramid, floated down the Grand Canal of Venice and down a Norwegian fjord, walked in the footsteps of Shakespeare and Churchill, and has witnessed people rocketing into space. One of his ambitions is to see with his own eyes Earth rising above the horizon of the Moon.