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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Kluger, Jeffrey.     Subjects     United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.     Project Apollo (U.S.)     Apollo 8 (Spacecraft)     Space flight to the moon.     Manned space flight.     Moon -- Exploration.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kluger, Jeffrey.       by title:      Apollo 8 : the thril...       by call number:      629.454 K66a     Search the Web     Kluger, Jeffrey.     United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.     Project Apollo (U.S.)     Apollo 8 (Spacecraft)     Space flight to the moon.     Manned space flight.     Moon -- Exploration.       MARC Display

Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the Moon / Jeffrey Kluger. by Kluger, Jeffrey. Henry Holt and Co., 2017. Call #: 629.454 K66a Subjects United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.   Project Apollo (U.S.)   Apollo 8 (Spacecraft)   Space flight to the moon.   Manned space flight.   Moon -- Exploration. ISBN:  9781627798327 (hc.) Description:  307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  The story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph. In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first manned flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. Written with all the color and verve of the best narrative non-fiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut's homes, from the test labs to the launch pad. The race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. Then, on Christmas Day, a nation that has suffered a horrendous year of assassinations and war is heartened by an inspiring message from the trio of astronauts in lunar orbit. And when the mission is over - after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry through the earth's atmosphere following a flight to deep space - the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach. A mission that was both a calculated risk and a wild crapshoot, a stirring account of how three American heroes forever changed our view of the home planet. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 629.454 K66a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 629.454 K66a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Nonfiction 629.454 K66a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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