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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:      LP 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. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017. Call #: LP 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:  9781432843472 (hc.) Alternate title:  Apollo eight : the thrilling story of the first mission to the moon Edition:  Large print edition. Description:  551 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first 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 nonfiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronauts' homes, from the test labs to the launchpad. 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 earthrise, and the first reentry through the Earth's atmosphere following a flight to deep space -- the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Home Delivery - HN Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 629.454 K66a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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