Rocket Men
Rocket Men by Robert Kurson.
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks;(May 21, 2019)
ISBN-10: 081298871X
By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to land a man on the Moon by President Kennedy’s end-of-decade deadline, and to triumph over the Soviets in space. With its back against the wall, NASA made an almost unimaginable leap: It would scrap its usual methodical approach and risk everything on a sudden launch, sending the first men in history to the Moon—in just four months. And it would all happen at Christmas.
In a year of historic violence and discord—the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago—the Apollo 8 mission would be the boldest, riskiest test of America’s greatness under pressure. In this gripping insider account, Robert Kurson puts the focus on the three astronauts and their families: the commander, Frank Borman, a conflicted man on his final mission; idealistic Jim Lovell, who’d dreamed since boyhood of riding a rocket to the Moon; and Bill Anders, a young nuclear engineer and hotshot fighter pilot making his first space flight.
Drawn from hundreds of hours of one-on-one interviews with the astronauts, their loved ones, NASA personnel, and myriad experts, and filled with vivid and unforgettable detail, Rocket Men is the definitive account of one of America’s finest hours. In this real-life thriller, Kurson reveals the epic dangers involved, and the singular bravery it took, for mankind to leave Earth for the first time—and arrive at a new world.
Well... as many books I have read over the years about our Space Race, "this book" is unique! I loved it.
As much as it was still about the race to the moon, this Apollo 8 books is as much about the astronauts as it is about the moon. A very "personable book". Filled with minute things that although I have read many other books on the race to the moon, this one makes you feel like you really know the astronauts and their families, and the small things which were probably never mentioned in any news about the flight.. you will learn in this book.
Thank you so very much Carl Anderson for giving me this book . At first I wondered if I really wanted to read yet another version of the space race... but once I started the book.. I knew it was different. It was personal. It was like I was right there through the whole flight. When they counted down to "Lift Off".. I cried like I did every time I actually saw the Launches and Splash Downs!..
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks;(May 21, 2019)
ISBN-10: 081298871X
By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to land a man on the Moon by President Kennedy’s end-of-decade deadline, and to triumph over the Soviets in space. With its back against the wall, NASA made an almost unimaginable leap: It would scrap its usual methodical approach and risk everything on a sudden launch, sending the first men in history to the Moon—in just four months. And it would all happen at Christmas.
In a year of historic violence and discord—the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago—the Apollo 8 mission would be the boldest, riskiest test of America’s greatness under pressure. In this gripping insider account, Robert Kurson puts the focus on the three astronauts and their families: the commander, Frank Borman, a conflicted man on his final mission; idealistic Jim Lovell, who’d dreamed since boyhood of riding a rocket to the Moon; and Bill Anders, a young nuclear engineer and hotshot fighter pilot making his first space flight.
Drawn from hundreds of hours of one-on-one interviews with the astronauts, their loved ones, NASA personnel, and myriad experts, and filled with vivid and unforgettable detail, Rocket Men is the definitive account of one of America’s finest hours. In this real-life thriller, Kurson reveals the epic dangers involved, and the singular bravery it took, for mankind to leave Earth for the first time—and arrive at a new world.
Well... as many books I have read over the years about our Space Race, "this book" is unique! I loved it.
As much as it was still about the race to the moon, this Apollo 8 books is as much about the astronauts as it is about the moon. A very "personable book". Filled with minute things that although I have read many other books on the race to the moon, this one makes you feel like you really know the astronauts and their families, and the small things which were probably never mentioned in any news about the flight.. you will learn in this book.
Thank you so very much Carl Anderson for giving me this book . At first I wondered if I really wanted to read yet another version of the space race... but once I started the book.. I knew it was different. It was personal. It was like I was right there through the whole flight. When they counted down to "Lift Off".. I cried like I did every time I actually saw the Launches and Splash Downs!..
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We watched the episode of The Crown last night where Prince Philip is so fascinated with the first moon landing. I had no idea he was smitten like that. Really nice of Carl to send you a great book!
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