Rocket Men
- Authors
- Nelson, Craig
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Tags
- biography , history , united states , technology & engineering , 20th century , space flight to the moon , science , astronomy , astrophysics & space science , general , aeronautics & astronautics , astronautics
- ISBN
- 9780143117162
- Date
- 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.53 MB
- Lang
- en
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** "Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride."
-*The Wall Street Journal* **
Restoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig Nelson's definitive and thrilling story of man's first trip to the moon. 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. Through interviews, 23,000 pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on the space race, *Rocket Men* presents a vivid narrative of the moon mission, taking readers on the journey to one of the last frontiers of the human imagination.