false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255635025m/6424902.jpg 6424902 3 <B>A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankind</B><BR><BR> At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in the presence of more than a million spectators who had gathered to witness a truly historic event. It carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins to the last frontier of human imagination: the moon.<BR><BR> <I>Rocket Men</I> is the thrilling story of the moon mission, and it 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.<BR><BR> Through interviews, twenty-three thousand pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on the space race, Craig Nelson re-creates a vivid and detailed account of the Apollo 11 mission. From the quotidian to the scientific to the magical, readers are taken right into the cockpit with Aldrin and Armstrong and behind the scenes at Mission Control.<BR><BR> <I>Rocket Men</I> is the story of a twentieth-century pilgrimage; a voyage into the unknown motivated by politics, faith, science, and wonder that changed the course of history. 6614178 25 6 2009 Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon total:65|5:19|4:31|3:14|2:0|1:1| 65 262 185 34 4 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 12:33:29 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 10:37:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 03:26:20 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 03:32:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 22 22:13:50 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 26 23:33:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 15 10:24:09 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 10:34:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 21:01:11 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 19:32:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 20:10:19 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 10:42:37 -0700 2009 Rocket Men: The Epic Story Of The First Men On The Moon. Overall the author does a good job in retelling...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 01:38:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 02:04:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jul 17 11:30:36 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 10:10:14 -0800 2009
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