Rocket men : the epic story of the first men on the moon / Craig Nelson.

Author Craig Nelson restores the mystery and majesty to an event that may have become too familiar for most people to realize what a stunning achievement it represented in planning, technology, and execution. Through interviews, 23,000 pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Craig, 1955-
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, 2009.
Subjects:
Project Apollo (U.S.)
Space flight to the moon.
Astronautics > United States > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:xii, 404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Behemoth
  • The general's command
  • Anything but what he is
  • The sons of Galileo
  • Mr. Cool Stone
  • Don't eat toads
  • A way to talk to God
  • How the pyramids were built
  • Total cold war
  • The bluff at Nobleman's Grave
  • The fluid front
  • The transfiguration
  • The Great Black Sea
  • The birth of the moon
  • The Eagle has wings
  • One of those sad days when you lose a machine
  • "Mr. President, the Eagle has landed"
  • To rediscover childhood
  • A tenuous grasp
  • We missed the whole thing
  • Through you, we touched the moon
  • When all those curves lined up.