Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Prologue: Countdown
Chapter One: Do You Want to Go to the Moon?
Chapter Two: The Space Race
Chapter Three: A Secret Plan
Chapter Four: Are You Out of Your Mind?
Chapter Five: Frank Borman
Chapter Six: Just Four Months
Chapter Seven: Jim Lovell
Chapter Eight: Pushed to Superhuman Speeds
Chapter Nine: Bill Anders
Chapter Ten: How’s Fifty-Fifty?
Chapter Eleven: My God, We Are Really Doing This
Chapter Twelve: Leaving Home
Chapter Thirteen: A Deeply Troubled Year
Chapter Fourteen: A Critical Test
Chapter Fifteen: An Astronaut in Trouble
Chapter Sixteen: Equigravisphere
Chapter Seventeen: Racing the Moon
Chapter Eighteen: Our Most Ancient Companion
Chapter Nineteen: Earthrise
Chapter Twenty: The Heaven and the Earth
Chapter Twenty-one: Aiming for Home
Chapter Twenty-two: Please Be Informed—There Is a Santa Claus
Chapter Twenty-three: Help from an Old Friend
Chapter Twenty-four: The Men Who Saved 1968
Epilogue
Photo Insert
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Diagram of Apollo 8
Author’s Note
A Note on Sources
By Robert Kurson
About the Author