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the daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the astronauts who made man's first journey to the Moon

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Rocket men
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An edition of Rocket men (2018)

Rocket men

the daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the astronauts who made man's first journey to the Moon

First large print edition.

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The inside, lesser-known story of NASA's boldest and riskiest mission: Apollo 8, mankind's first journey to the Moon on Christmas in 1968. With a focus on astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, and their wives and children, this is a vivid, gripping, you-are-there narrative that shows anew the epic danger involved, and the singular bravery it took, for man to leave Earth for the first time - and to arrive at a new world. Print run 50,000.

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Project Apollo (U.S.), Apollo 8 (Spacecraft), Space flight to the moon, nyt:science=2018-05-13, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Project apollo (u.s.), HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SCIENCE / Space Science, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries

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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
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Rocket men: the daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the astronauts who made man's first journey to the Moon
2018, Random House, Random House Publishing Group
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2018
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Table of Contents

Prologue: Countdown
Do you want to go to the moon?
The space race
A secret plan
Are you out of your mind?
Frank Borman
Just four months
Jim Lovell
Pushed to superhuman speeds
Bill Anders
How's fifty-fifty?
My God, we are really doing this
Leaving home
A deeply troubled year
A critical test
An astronaut in trouble
Equigravisphere
Racing the moon
Our most ancient companion
Earthrise
The heaven and the earth
Aiming for home
Please be informed
there is a Santa Claus
Help from an old friend
the men who saved 1968.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-538) and index.

Copyright Date
2018

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Dewey Decimal Class
629.45/4
Library of Congress
TL789.8.U6 A5438 2018b

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Pagination
x, 564 pages (large print)
Number of pages
564

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OL26952095M
ISBN 10
0525589937
ISBN 13
9780525589938
OCLC/WorldCat
993998002

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Shares the inside story of the dangerous Apollo 8 mission, focusing on the lives of astronaut heroes Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, while illuminating the political factors that prompted the decision to risk lives to save the Apollo program and define the space race.

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