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Rocket men

the epic story of the first men on the moon

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An edition of Rocket men (2009)

Rocket men

the epic story of the first men on the moon

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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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Viking
Language
English
Pages
404

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Subjects

Project Apollo (U.S.), Astronautics, Space flight to the moon, History, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2009-08-02, New York Times bestseller, Project apollo (u.s.), Astronautics, history

Places

United States

Times

20th century

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Rocket men: the epic story of the first men on the moon
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-393) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
629.45/40973
Library of Congress
TL789.8.U6 A559 2009, TL789.8.U6A559 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 404 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
404

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26319987M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780670021031
ISBN 10
0670021032
ISBN 13
9780670021031
LCCN
2008051175
OCLC/WorldCat
276602390
Goodreads
6424902

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