Contents
1. Dr. Robert Goddard Meets Buck Rogers
2. Kennedy, von Braun, and the Crucible of World War II
5. Spooked into the Space Race
7. Missile Gaps and the Creation of NASA
8. Mercury Seven to the Rescue
11. Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard
12. “Going to the Moon”: Washington, DC, May 25, 1961
13. Searching for Moonlight in Tulsa and Vienna
14. Moon Momentum with Television and Gus Grissom
16. Scott Carpenter, Telstar, and Presidential Space Touring
Part IV: Projects Gemini and Apollo
17. “We Choose to Go to the Moon”: Rice University, September 12, 1962
18. Gemini Nine and Wally Schirra
19. State of Space Exploration
20. “The Space Effort Must Go On”