Full name: Chariots for Apollo: Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon

Authors: Joshua Stoff, Charles Pellegrino Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780380802616 0380802619

It began in the depths of the Cold War, with two nations hurtling steel chariots into the atmosphere, each vowing to be the first to the moon. Then, in 1961, John F. Kennedy challenged America -- and from Long Island to Cape Canaveral, Houston to Huntsville, an army of engineers, scientists, bureaucrats and astronauts were swept up into the effort. Somehow, America would put a man on the moon's surface and bring him back safely before the decade was over. But how?For eight frantic years the engineers would design and redesign, the scientists would argue, and brave men would trust their lives to virtually untested machinery. This dramatic chronicle of the race to the moon takes us behind the scenes of this awesome quest, into the minds of the people whose lives were devoted to it and changed by it, and through the missions themselves -- including the tragedy of Apollo 13. A riveting portrait of ingenuity, determination, and raw human courage, "Chariots for Apollo is the powerful story of how one society came together to reach its goal -- a quarter of a million miles away. Similar books: Thirteen by Henry S. F. Cooper Jr. Moon Lander by Thomas J. Kelly Dragonfly by Bryan Burrough All We Did Was Fly to the Moon by Dick Lattimer Too Far From Home by Chris Jones Moon Shot by Alan Shepard Countdown by T. A. Heppenheimer Men From Earth by Buzz Aldrin For All Mankind by Harry Hurt This New Ocean by William E. Burrows We Reach the Moon by John Noble Wilford We Have Capture by Thomas P. Stafford Liftoff by Michael Collins Moondust by Andrew Smith Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins