The Resource Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the moon, Jeffrey Kluger
Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the moon, Jeffrey Kluger
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- Summary
- In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut's homes, and the race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. And when the mission is over-after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry through the earth's atmosphere following a flight to deep space-the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach. The full story of Apollo 8 has never been told, and only Jeffrey Kluger-Jim Lovell's co-author on their bestselling book about Apollo 13-can do it justice. Here is the tale of a mission that was both a calculated risk and a wild crapshoot, a stirring account of how three American heroes forever changed our view of the home planet
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Picador Edition.
- Extent
- 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Includes index
- Isbn
- 9781627798327
- Label
- Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the moon
- Title
- Apollo 8
- Title remainder
- the thrilling story of the first mission to the moon
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeffrey Kluger
- Title variation
- Apollo Eight
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut's homes, and the race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. And when the mission is over-after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry through the earth's atmosphere following a flight to deep space-the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach. The full story of Apollo 8 has never been told, and only Jeffrey Kluger-Jim Lovell's co-author on their bestselling book about Apollo 13-can do it justice. Here is the tale of a mission that was both a calculated risk and a wild crapshoot, a stirring account of how three American heroes forever changed our view of the home planet
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kluger, Jeffrey
- Dewey number
- 629.45/4
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Space flight to the moon
- Apollo 8 (Spacecraft)
- Project Apollo (U.S.)
- Label
- Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the moon, Jeffrey Kluger
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1000331111
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Picador Edition.
- Extent
- 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781627798327
- Lccn
- 2016046157
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour)
- Label
- Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the moon, Jeffrey Kluger
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1000331111
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Picador Edition.
- Extent
- 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781627798327
- Lccn
- 2016046157
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour)
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