ARROWS TO THE MOON, Avro's Engineers and The Space Race, Written by Chris Gainor, and RARE: Signed by NASA Engineer R. Bryan Erb (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Chris Gainor. Published by Apogee Books, Burlington, ON., 2001, 1st Edition.  1969. Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with mild front cover crease. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 10 x 6.75 inch, 296 pages.

ULTRA RARE: SIGNED, dated and dedicated to a family member, by one of the Arrow-NASA Engineers; Mr. R. Bryan Erb, Acting Manager of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, and he's also featured in the book.

ARROWS TO THE MOON, tells for the first time the story of the Canadian and British engineers from Avro Canada who played key roles in putting Americans on the Moon and in building today's US space programme, including the space shuttle and the International Space Station. 

On 20 February 1959 the Canadian government shut down the CF-105 Avro Arrow jet interceptor programme, putting the cream of Canada's aerospace engineering talent out of work. Many of the Avro engineers had just arrived in Canada from Great Britain. A brand-new organisation called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was charged with putting US astronauts into space, and in 1959 it desperately needed engineering talent. Within 10 weeks of the demise of the Arrow, 25 Avro engineers were working for NASA, and another seven joined them later. Other Avro engineers found work with the aerospace contractors that built spacecraft and boosters or NASA. A little more than 10 years later, US astronauts were standing on the surface of the Moon in the climax of one of the greatest stories of technology and exploration in human history.

Also included are other Canadian contributions to Apollo and a chapter on the Canadian space programme. This is the final chapter in one of the most compelling stories in Canada's history. How the demise of Canada's national dream contributes to one of the greatest triumphs in American history.

For more info and BIO on Bryan Erb, please see: SPACE Canada - Bryan Erb

For more info on the Author, please see: Chris Gainor – Historian, Writer