Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon Hardcover - 2009
by Nelson, Craig
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
A richly detailedand dramaticaccount of oneof the greatestachievements ofhumankind
At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched inthe presence of more than a million spectators who had gatheredto witness a truly historic event. It carried Neil Armstrong, BuzzAldrin, and Mike Collins to the last frontier of human imagination:the moon.
Rocket Men is the thrilling story of the moon mission, and itrestores the mystery and majesty to an event that may have becometoo familiar for most people to realize what a stunning achievementit represented in planning, technology, and execution.
Through interviews, twenty-three thousand pages of NASAoral histories, and declassified CIA documents on the space race,Craig Nelson re-creates a vivid and detailed account of the Apollo11 mission. From the quotidian to the scientific to the magical,readers are taken right into the cockpit with Aldrin and Armstrongand behind the scenes at Mission Control.
Rocket Men is the story of a twentieth-century pilgrimage; avoyage into the unknown motivated by politics, faith, science, andwonder that changed the course of history.
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- Title Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
- Author Nelson, Craig
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 404
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking Adult, New York
- Date 2009-06-25
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 065668
- ISBN 9780670021031 / 0670021032
- Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
- Dimensions 9.68 x 6.34 x 1.43 in (24.59 x 16.10 x 3.63 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Project Apollo (U.S.), Space flight to the moon
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008051175
- Dewey Decimal Code 629.454
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