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Author:

Kurson, Robert, author.

Title:

Rocket men : the daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the astronauts who made man's first journey to the Moon / Robert Kurson.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

372 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Project Apollo (U.S.)
Apollo 8 (Spacecraft)
Apollo 8 (Spacecraft)
Project Apollo (U.S.)
Space flight to the moon.
Space flight to the moon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Do you want to go to the moon? -- The space race -- A secret plan -- Are you out of your mind? -- Frank Borman -- Just four months -- Jim Lovell -- Pushed to superhuman speeds -- Bill Anders -- How's fifty-fifty? -- My God, we are really doing this -- Leaving home -- A deeply troubled year -- A critical test -- An astronaut in trouble -- Equisphere -- Racing the moon -- Our most ancient companion -- Earthrise -- The Heaven and the Earth -- Aiming for home -- Please be informed-there is a Santa Claus -- Help from an old friend -- The men who saved 1968.

Summary:

The inside, lesser-known story of NASA's boldest and riskiest mission: Apollo 8, mankind's first journey to the Moon on Christmas in 1968. With a focus on astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, and their wives and children, this is a vivid, gripping, you-are-there narrative that shows anew the epic danger involved, and the singular bravery it took, for man to leave Earth for the first time - and to arrive at a new world. Print run 50,000.

ISBN:

0812988701
9780812988703

OCLC:

(OCoLC)974796189

LCCN:

2017009386

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