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Nelson, Craig, 1955-
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Project Apollo (U.S.)
Space flight to the moon.
Astronautics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Nelson, Craig, 1955-
Project Apollo (U.S.)
Space flight to the moon.
Astronautics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
MARC Display
Rocket
men
: the
epic
story
of the
first
men
on the
moon
/ Craig Nelson.
by
Nelson, Craig, 1955-
Viking, 2009.
Call #:
629.454 N425r
Subjects
Project Apollo (U.S.)
Space flight to the
moon
.
Astronautics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780670021031
0670021032
Description:
xii, 404 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-393) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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.
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