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The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
Viking Adult
July 2009
On Sale: June 24, 2009
416 pages
ISBN: 0670021032
EAN: 9780670021031
Hardcover
$27.95
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Non-Fiction
A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the
greatest achievements of humankind At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched
in the presence of more than a million spectators who had
gathered to witness a truly historic event. It carried Neil
Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins to the last
frontier of human imagination: the moon. Rocket Men is the thrilling story of the moon mission, and
it restores the mystery and majesty to an event that may
have become too familiar for most people to realize what a
stunning achievement it represented in planning, technology,
and execution. Through interviews, twenty-three thousand pages of NASA oral
histories, and declassified CIA documents on the space race,
Craig Nelson re-creates a vivid and detailed account of the
Apollo 11 mission. From the quotidian to the scientific to
the magical, readers are taken right into the cockpit with
Aldrin and Armstrong and behind the scenes at Mission Control. Rocket Men is the story of a twentieth-century pilgrimage; a
voyage into the unknown motivated by politics, faith,
science, and wonder that changed the course of history.
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