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100 _aNelson, Craig,
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245 1 0 _aRocket men :
_bthe epic story of the first men on the moon /
_cCraig Nelson.
260 _aLondon :
_bJohn Murray,
_c2010.
300 _a404p.
_c20cm
500 _aOriginally published: 2009.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aA richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankind At 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.
610 0 _aProject Apollo (U.S.)
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650 0 _aSpace flight to the moon.
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