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The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
Open Road
May 2011
On Sale: May 3, 2011
396 pages
ISBN: 1453258264
EAN: 9781453258262
Kindle: B004S2UAKG
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Non-Fiction History
A revised edition of the New York Times
bestselling classic: the epic story of the golden years
of American space exploration, told by the men who rode the
rockets
On October 4,
1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space
race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space,
NASA put together a crew of the nation’s most daring test
pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon.
The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke
Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until
1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA’s effort
to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside
account of what many call the twentieth century’s greatest
feat—landing humans on another
world. Collaborating with NBC’s
veteran space reporter Jay Barbree, Shepard and Slayton
narrate in gripping detail the story of America’s space
exploration from the time of Shepard’s first flight until he
and eleven others had walked on the moon.
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