LUIGI PIZZIMENTI

	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 Barun, 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 APOLLO16 moonwalker CHARLIE DUKE who has editted the preface of the LUIGI PIZZIMENTI’s book “ APOLLO PROJECT”		THE CHARLIE DUKE’s writing,he tells his congratulations for the LUIGI PIZZIMENTI book”APOLLO PROJECT”

The APOLLO9,the commander of the mission:JIM MCDIVITT,the pilot DAVID SCOTT and the pilot of the lunar modulus RUSTY SCHWEICKART,together with LUIGI PIZZIMENTI		LUIGI PIZZIMENTI in front of NASA enter monument.
Apollo’s missions for the conquest of the moon aren’t only an history of powerful launching rockets, of brilliant solutions to all problems that a journey of 600.000 kilometres in an hostile freezing and devoid of atmosphere surrounding; all these problems have been faced and resolved, but all this is an history of men that tell thanks to the evidences of the NASA’s and tell about their memories, their emotions and their little and great secrets to the author of this wonderful book. Luigi Pizzimenti APOLLO’S PROJECT "The greatest dream of the man" 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 introduction 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

PROGRAM OF EVENT

WITH THE SUPPORT OF:

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 FOAM13’S PRESIDENT IS ROBERTO CRIPPA

He presents the history of the observatory

DOTT. GIUSEPPE PALUMBO

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

DOTT. 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

He’s the author of the book and presents it

PROF. FEDERICO MANZINI

He is the responsible of the scientific activity.

The discussion with the public

The end of the presentation at 19.30

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 Mr.Luigi Pizzimenti

THE RELATION OF THE EVENT 20 MARCH 2010 The first national presentation of the book “APOLLO PROJECT” by Luigi Pizzimenti					We thank Bruno Moretti Turri, for the movie of the event.
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 Luigi Pizzimenti ELARA EDITION ( BOLOGNA 2009) 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 SATURN5 signed by all the 18 Apollo Project’s space men. All these objects could stay in every museum of the world. THANKS TO MR. PAOLO BARDELLI AND MR. ROBERTO COGLIATI for the photos.

It’s all ready for the event	The Reception	The replica of the BUZZ ALDRIN’s space-suit realized by LUIGI PIZZIMENTI.It’s incredible the replica ,it seems true.

The particular of APOLLLO 11 coat-of –arms	The Roll Book printed on the left sleeve	The particular of the dickey	The original pockets for the manuals of the space-suits are incredibly lights	The original page signed by KONSTANTIN EDUARDOVICH TIOLKOVSKJ on the theory about rockets	The original manual of APOLLO15’S FLIGHT PLAN


We prepare the show-cases in the conference-room			APOLLO13’s modulus of control signed by JAMES LOVELL and the capsule GEMINI4 signed by JAMES MCDIVITT	The model of LEM signed by all the Moon Walkers	The APOLLO11’s modulus of control signed by MIKE COLLINS,MERCURY7 AURORA ’s space-suit signed by SCOTT CARPENTER

The original manualof APOLLO11’s flight plan signed by BUZZ ALDRIN	MERCURY 6 signed by JOHN GLEEN	APOLLO7 signed by RUSSEL SCHWEICKART and JAMES MC DIVITT	The lunar globe signed by all th Moon Walkers	One of the pages of the manual of star navigation used by the APOLLO11’s moonwalkers signed by BUZZ ALDRIN

The scale model 1:96 of the launching-rocket SATURN5 signed by all the33 moonwalkers of the APOLLO’s missions 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17		The APOLLO11’s modulus of control signed by MIKE COLLINS	The APOLLO13 modulus of control and LEM SIGNED BY JAMES LOVELL and FRED HAISE	“HOUSTON WE ‘VE A PROBLEM” ,the APOLLO13’s modulus of control signed by JAMES LOVELL	APOLLO15’s MOON BUGGY driven and signed by DAVE SCOTT

The model of the photo-camera Hasselblad used by the moonwalkers	The painting GEMINI’s missions signed by the moonwalkers who have taken part	APOLLO11’s painting signed by NEIL ARMSTRONG with MYLAR MODEL OF LEM	A panorama of the show-cases,there are lots of incredible documents and objects of APOLLO’s missions		An interview with the television

The public is arriving and it’s beginning the event	FOAM13’s president tells about the observatory	The moderator and the responsible of events in FOAM13,he presents the guests and their curriculum vitae .	DOTT.ANTONIO LO CAMPO, the journalist of the LA STAMPA and NUOVO ORIONE	GIUSEPPE MACALLI the responsible of the auxiliary telescopes FOAM13 and he’s the export of the astronautics	LUIGI PIZZIMENTI presents his book

LUIGI PIZZIMENTI presents his book	The responsible of the scientific FOAM13 activity	GIUSEPPE PALUMBO and ROBERTO CRIPPA conclude the manifestation		The space-suit is airresistible fascination,here we see the president ROBERTO CRIPPA and the vice-president ROBERTO COGLIATI with LUIGI PIZZIMENTI

Giuseppe Palumbo	PAOLO OSTINELLI the responsible of the informatic FOAM13 with GIUSEPPE MACALLI	Giuseppe Macalli and Luigi Pizzimenti	Roberto Cogliati, Antonio Lo Campo and Giuseppe Macalli	Giuseppe Macalli and Chiara Mazzucchelli	Ancora Giuseppe Macalli, Roberto Cogliati and Paolo Ostinelli

ANTONIO LO CAMPO and LUIGI PIZZIMENTI that exchange the two books written by both of them	BRUNO MORETTI TURRI the pioneer of SETI Project in ITALY ;he’s the collaborator of the Radio Astronomy Section in FOAM13 with LUIGI PIZZIMENTI	Roberto Cogliati and Luigi Pizzimenti	Before going away,LUIGI PIZZIMENTI,ANTONIO LO CAMPO and MARCO BACCINI sign us our gold book of the famous guests.There is also one of the secretary: MRS MARIA MODENA and one of the collaborators of the didactic activity in FOAM13,MR.SIMONE BERNASCONI.

	There is the FOAM13 STAFF who have taken part to the organization and realization of the manifestation “APOLLO’s PROJECT” "Progetto Apollo" From left to right: Roberto Crippa, Giuseppe Palumbo, Laura Palumbo, Antonio Lo Campo, Francesca Crippa, Tina Lisco, Paolo Bardelli, Roberto Cogliati, Luigi Pizzimenti, Federico Manzini, Giuseppe Macalli, Antonio Paganoni, Diego De Gasperin, Simone Bernasconi, Maria Modena, Paolo Ostinelli. Mancano nella foto: Chiara Mazzucchelli, Enrico Pierobon, Michele Fizzigna, Giuseppe Savio.


"Apollo Project" di Luigi Pizzimenti