03217cam a2200385 i 4500 487333 487333 960762391 US-DLC 20180114123610.0 161014s2017 nyuaf 001 0 eng 2016046157 9781627798327 hardcover 1627798323 hardcover 9781627798310 electronic book (OCoLC)960762391 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF OCLCQ LIV UPZ IK2 YDX YDX OCLCO DGU BUDAP T2S BUR RB0 pcc n-us--- zmo---- Alfaisal Main Library TL789.8.U6 A54325 2017 Kluger, Jeffrey, author Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the Moon / Jeffrey Kluger Apollo eight First edition 2017 New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2017] 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes index Recounts the bold but dangerous mission to secure America's position as the first nation to reach the moon, revealing the dangers endured by its crew and the ways the mission brought renewal to a country ravaged by assassinations and war "In 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. Written with all the color and verve of the best narrative nonfiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronauts' homes, from the test labs to the launchpad. The race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. Then, on Christmas Day, a nation that has suffered a horrendous year of assassinations and war is heartened by an inspiring message from the trio of astronauts in lunar orbit. And when the mission is over--after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earthrise, and the first reentry through the Earth's atmosphere following a flight to deep space--the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach. The full story of Apollo 8 has never been told, and only Jeffrey Kluger--Jim Lovell's coauthor of the bestselling book about Apollo 13--can do it justice. 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."--Jacket Project Apollo (U.S.) Space flight to the moon Project Apollo (U.S.) Space flight to the moon local 4 Print books. lcc BOOKS 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2018-01-14 0 TL789.8.U6 A54325 2017 AU00000000010955 2018-01-14 00:00:00 215.00 2018-01-14 BOOKS