書名 : Apollo 8 :the thrilling story of the first mission to the moon /
紀錄類型 : 書目-語言資料,印刷品: 單行本
正題名[資料類型標示]/作者 : Apollo 8 :Jeffrey Kluger.
其他題名 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the moon /
其他題名 : Apollo eight.
作者 : Kluger, Jeffrey.
出版者 : New York :Picador/Henry Holt and Company,2018.
面頁冊數 : 307 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates :ill (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ;21 cm
附註 : Originally published 2017.
標題 : Space flight to the moon.
ISBN : 9781250182517 (pbk.) :
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500 $aOriginally published 2017.
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aIn August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut's homes, and the race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. And when the mission is over -- after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry through the earth's atmosphere following a flight to deep space -- the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach. Here is the tale of a mission that was both a calculated risk and a wild crapshoot, a stirring account of how three American heroes forever changed our view of the home planet.
650 0$aSpace flight to the moon.