Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings (English Edition)

Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree

Open Road Media

2011

404 páginas

13h 28m

ISBN-13: 9781453221082

Português Brasileiro

New York Times bestseller for fans of First Man: A breathtaking insider history of NASAs space programfrom astronauts Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton (Entertainment Weekly). On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nations most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASAs effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the twentieth centurys greatest featlanding humans on another world. Collaborating with NBCs veteran space reporter Jay Barbree, Shepard and Slayton narrate in gripping detail the story of Americas space exploration from the time of Shepards first flight until he and eleven others had walked on the moon.