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02461aam a2200325 i 4500 001 800CBE762AA611E9A696796597128E48 003 SILO 005 20190207010156 008 100422r20102009nyua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a bl2010011016 020 $a 0670021032 020 $a 9780670021031 (pbk.) 040 $a NjBwBT $c NjBwBT $d TLC $e rda $d SILO 050 14 $a TL789.8.U6 $b A559 2010 082 04 $a 629.45/40973 $2 22 082 14 $a 629.45 $2 14 100 1 $a Nelson, Craig, $d 1955- $e author. $0 (DLC)nb2001029890 245 10 $a Rocket men : $b the epic story of the first men on the moon / $c Craig Nelson. 264 1 $a New York : $b Viking, $c 2009. 300 $a xii, 404 pages, [16] pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-393) and index. 505 $a Behemoth -- The general's command -- Anything but what he is -- The sons of Galileo -- Mr. Cool Stone -- Don't eat toads -- A way to talk to God -- How the pyramids were built -- Total cold war -- The bluff at Nobleman's Grave -- The fluid front -- The transfiguration -- The Great Black Sea -- The birth of the Moon -- The Eagle has wings -- One of those sad days when you lose a machine -- "Mr. President, the Eagle has landed" -- To rediscover childhood -- A tenuous grasp -- We missed the whole thing -- Through you, we touched the Moon -- When all those curves lined up. 520 $a Recreates the story of the Apollo 11 moon mission through interviews, NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents. 520 $a Author Craig Nelson 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, 23,000 pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on the space race, Nelson 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.--From publisher description. 610 20 $a Project Apollo (U.S.) $0 (DLC)n 85308634 650 0 $a Space flight to the moon. $0 (DLC)sh 85125931 650 0 $a Astronautics $z United States $x History $y 20th century. $0 (DLC)sh2007101539 941 $a 1 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20211215014210.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=800CBE762AA611E9A696796597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search