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[1969]
Language
English
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In response to President John F. Kennedy's 1961 vow to land a man on the moon and return him to Earth safely by the end of the decade, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) started the Apollo program. The program attempted 17 missions between 1967 and 1972. On December 21, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 8 - its second manned mission, and the first to orbit the moon.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the...
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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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The year was 1968, and the American people were still reeling from the spacecraft fire that killed the Apollo 1 crew a year earlier. On top of that, there were rumors that the Russian cosmonauts were getting ready to fly around the moon. NASA realized that they needed to take a bold step--and that they needed to take it now. They wanted to win the space race against Russia and hold true to President Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the...
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[2018]
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English
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The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind's historic first mission to the Moon, from the New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Divers .By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to land a man on the Moon by President Kennedy's end-of-decade deadline, and to triumph over the Soviets in space. With its back against the wall, NASA made...
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