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Moon shot : the inside story of America's race to the moon

Title
Moon shot : the inside story of America's race to the moon / by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton ; with Jay Barbree and Howard Benedict ; introduction by Neil Armstrong.
Author
Shepard, Alan B. (Alan Bartlett), 1923-1998
Publication
  • Atlanta : Turner Publishing, Inc., [1994]
  • Kansas City, Missouri : Distributed by Andrews and McMeel, a Universal Press Syndicate Company.

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Additional Authors
  • Slayton, Donald K., 1924-1993
  • Barbree, Jay
  • Benedict, Howard
  • Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012
Description
383 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
This is the story of the successes of the space program - the first orbital flight, the first spacewalk, the first moon landing - and the stories of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs as written by two member of the original U.S. astronaut team (known as Mercury 7), including Alan Shepard, America's first man in space. This chronology begins with the origins of the U.S. space program in the late 1950s and ends with the 1975 Apollo Soyuz Test Project, but focuses on the stories of Alan Shepard and Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton.
Subject
  • Slayton, Donald K., 1924-1993
  • Shepard, Alan B. 1923-1998
  • Project Apollo (U.S.) > History
  • Project Apollo (U.S.)
  • Space flight to the moon > History
  • Space flight to the moon
  • Raumfahrt
  • Erlebnisbericht
  • Apollo project > History
  • Mond
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Erlebnisbericht.
  • Autographs.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
The landing -- The beginning -- The pilots -- The astronauts -- Training -- The selection -- The cape -- First in space -- Freedom Seven -- NASA is made -- Mercury : messengers from space -- Houston -- Space walk -- Gemini : the little spaceship that could -- I've got a fire in the cockpit -- Aftermath -- Apollo 8 and a Russian push to the moon -- Getting there, getting back -- Lifeboat! -- Apollo 14 : all or nothing -- No turning back -- Moon walk -- Last Apollo out -- Salt and vodka -- Soyez and Apollo are shaking hands -- Deke Slayton : astronaut.
ISBN
  • 1878685546
  • 9781878685544
LCCN
94003027
OCLC
  • ocm29846731
  • 29846731
  • SCSB-2058297
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library