Shoot for the moon : the space race and the extraordinary voyage of Apollo 11 / James Donovan.
"When the alarm went off forty thousand feet above the moon's surface, both astronauts looked down at me computer to see 1202 flashing on the readout. Neither of them knew what it meant, and time was running out... On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to...
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Up. Cossacks in space ; Of monkeys and men ; "The howling infinite" ; Man on a missile
- Part II: Around. In orbit ; Under pressure ; The Gusmobile ; The walk, and a sky gone berserk
- Part III: Out. Inferno ; Recovery ; Phoenix and earthrise ; "Amiable strangers" ; A practice run and a dress rehearsal
- Part IV: Down. "You're go" ; The Translunar Express ; Descent to Luna ; Moondust.