Rocket men the epic story of the first men on the moon
Author Craig Nelson 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, 23,000 pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on...
| Main Author: | Nelson, Craig, 1955- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Behemoth
- The general's command
- Anything but what he is
- The sons of Galileo
- Mr. Cool Stone
- Don't eat toads
- A way to talk to God
- How the pyramids were built
- Total cold war
- The bluff at Nobleman's Grave
- The fluid front
- The transfiguration
- The Great Black Sea
- The birth of the moon
- The Eagle has wings
- One of those sad days when you lose a machine
- "Mr. President, the Eagle has landed"
- To rediscover childhood
- A tenuous grasp
- We missed the whole thing
- Through you, we touched the moon
- When all those curves lined up.