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Index
Cover
Title Page
Frontispiece
Dedication
Contents
Preface: Kennedy’s New Ocean
Part I: Rockets
1. Dr. Robert Goddard Meets Buck Rogers
2. Kennedy, von Braun, and the Crucible of World War II
3. Surviving a Savage War
4. Who’s Afraid of the V-2?
Part II: Generation Sputnik
5. Spooked into the Space Race
6. Sputnik Revolution
7. Missile Gaps and the Creation of NASA
8. Mercury Seven to the Rescue
9. Kennedy for President
Part III: Moonbound
10. Skyward with James Webb
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
15. Godspeed, John Glenn
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”
21. Cape Kennedy
Epilogue: The Triumph of Apollo 11
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Photo Section
About the Author
Also by Douglas Brinkley
Copyright
About the Publisher
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