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100 1  $a Kurson, Robert.
245 1  $a Rocket men : $b the daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the astronauts who made man's first journey to the moon / $c Robert Kurson.
250    $a 2019 Random House trade paperback edition.
264  1 $a New York :  $b Random House,  $c 2019.
300    $a x, 372 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 21 cm.
500    $a By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to land a man on the Moon by President Kennedy’s end-of-decade deadline, and to triumph over the Soviets in space. With its back against the wall, NASA made an almost unimaginable leap: It would scrap its usual methodical approach and risk everything on a sudden launch, sending the first men in history to the Moon—in just four months. And it would all happen at Christmas. In a year of historic violence and discord—the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago—the Apollo 8 mission would be the boldest, riskiest test of America’s greatness under pressure. In this gripping insider account, Robert Kurson puts the focus on the three astronauts and their families: the commander, Frank Borman, a conflicted man on his final mission; idealistic Jim Lovell, who’d dreamed since boyhood of riding a rocket to the Moon; and Bill Anders, a young nuclear engineer and hotshot fighter pilot making his first space flight. Drawn from hundreds of hours of one-on-one interviews with the astronauts, their loved ones, NASA personnel, and myriad experts, and filled with vivid and unforgettable detail, Rocket Men is the definitive account of one of America’s finest hours. In this real-life thriller, Kurson reveals the epic dangers involved, and the singula.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-356) and index.
541    $d 20190621.
610 2  $a Project Apollo (U.S.)
610 2  $a Apollo 8 (Spacecraft.)
650  7 $a Space flight to the moon.
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