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Index
Foreword to the 2004 Edition
Acknowledgments
Apollo Abbreviations
Prologue. May 25, 1961
BOOK I. GATHERING
Chapter 1. “That famous Space Task Group is akin to the Mayflower”
Chapter 2. “I could picture the astronauts looking down at it with binoculars”
Chapter 3. “Those days were out of the Dark Ages”
Chapter 4. “He would rather not have done it”
Chapter 5. “We’re going to the moon”
BOOK II. BUILDING
Chapter 6. “The flight article has got to dominate”
Chapter 7. “We had more harebrained schemes than you could shake a stick at”
Chapter 8. “Somewhat as a voice in the wilderness. . .”
Chapter 9. “What sonofabitch thinks it isn’t the right thing to do?”
Chapter 10. “It aged me, I’m sure”
Chapter 11. “It sounded reckless”
Chapter 12. “Hey, it isn’t that complicated”
Chapter 13. “We want you to go fix it”
Chapter 14. “Did he say ‘fire’?”
Chapter 15. The Crucible
Chapter 16. “You’ve got to start biting somewhere”
Chapter 17. “And then on launch day it worked”
BOOK III. FLYING
Chapter 18. “We’re going to put a guy in that thing and light it”
Chapter 19. “There will always be people who want to work in that room”
Chapter 20. “The flight director may take any necessary action”
Chapter 21. “There was no mercy in those days”
Chapter 22. “You’ve lost the engines?”
Chapter 23. “It was darn scary”
Chapter 24. “We . . . we’re go on that, Flight”
Chapter 25. “Well, let’s light this sumbitch and it better work”
Chapter 26. “I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing”
Chapter 27. “You really need to understand that the C.S.M. is dying”
Chapter 28. “You don’t have time to worry”
Chapter 29. “I hope the guys who thought this up knew what they were doing”
Chapter 30. “We drank the wine at the pace they handed it to us”
Epilogue. Twenty Years after the First Landing
Images of Apollo
Apollo as History
Notes
Glossary
About the Ebook Edition
About the Authors
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