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On 20 July 1969, man set foot on the moon. Motivated by politics, faith, science and wonder, the Apollo 11 mission was the greatest technical achievement of all time. It was the culmination of over a decade's worth of money and effort from more than 400,000 staff and crew. Rocket Men follows the astounding story of the lunar project, beginning at its inception at the start of the Cold War and tracing it through to its finest hour with the first moon landing and the astronauts' safe return.
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Project Apollo (U.S.), Astronautics, Space flight to the moon, History, Nonfiction, Large type books, Apollo 11, Apollo-Programm, Astronautics, historyPlaces
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Rocket men: the epic story of the first men on the moon
2010, John Murray
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Rocket men: the triumph and tragedy of the first Americans on the moon
2009, Viking
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0670021032 9780670021031
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Rocket men: the epic story of the first men on the moon
2009, John Murray, Viking Press, John Murray Publishers Ltd
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0719569486 9780719569487
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Rocket men: the epic story of the first men on the moon
2009, Thorndike Press
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1410418545 9781410418548
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-393) and index.
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A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankindAt 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in the presence of more than a million spectators who had gathered to witness a truly historic event. It carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins to the last frontier of human imagination: the moon.Rocket Men is the thrilling story of the moon mission, and it 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, twenty-three thousand pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on the space race, Craig Nelson re-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.Rocket Men is the story of a twentieth-century pilgrimage; a voyage into the unknown motivated by politics, faith, science, and wonder that changed the course of history.
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