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Shoot for the moon : the space race and the extraordinary voyage of Apollo 11

Donovan, Jim 1954- (author.).

Summary: When the alarm went off forty thousand feet above the moon's surface, both astronauts looked down at the computer to see 1202 flashing on the readout. Neither of them knew what it meant, and time was running out...On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. One of the world's greatest technological achievements-and a triumph of American spirit and ingenuity-the Apollo 11 mission was a mammoth undertaking involving more than 410,000 men and women dedicated to winning the space race against the Soviets. Set amid the tensions of the Cold War and the upheavals of the sixties, and filled with first-person, behind-the-scenes details, "Shoot for the Moon" is a gripping account of the dangers, the challenges, and the sheer determination that defined not only Apollo 11, but also the Mercury and Gemini missions that came before it. From the shock of Sputnik and the heart-stopping final minutes of John Glenn's Mercury flight to the deadly whirligig of Gemini 8, the doomed Apollo 1 mission, and that perilous landing on the Sea of Tranquility-when the entire world held its breath while Armstrong and Aldrin battled computer alarms, low fuel, and other problems- James Donovan tells the whole story.

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  • ISBN: 9780316341783
  • ISBN: 0316341789
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 453 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2019.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-439) and index.
Subject: Project Apollo (U.S.)
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft)
Space flight to the moon History
Moon Exploration

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  • 51 of 52 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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