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020			_a9780062655066 _q(hardcover)
020			_a006265506X _q(hardcover)
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049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050	1	4	_aTL789.8.U5 _bB73 2019
100	1		_aBrinkley, Douglas, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAmerican moonshot : _bJohn F. Kennedy and the great space race / _cDouglas Brinkley
250			_aFirst edition
260			_c©2019
264		1	_aNew York : _bHarperCollins Publishers, _c©2019
300			_a548 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 515-526) and index
505	0		_aPreface: Kennedy's new ocean -- Rockets. Dr. Robert Goddard meets Buck Rogers ; Kennedy, von Braun, and the crucible of World War II ; Surviving a savage war ; Who's afraid of the V-2? -- Generation Sputnik. Spooked into the space race ; Sputnik revolution ; Missile gaps and the creation of NASA ; Mercury Seven to the rescue ; Kennedy for President -- Moonbound. Skyward with James Webb ; Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard ; ""Going to the moon": Washington, DC, May 25, 1961 ; Searching for moonlight in Tulsa and Vienna ; Moon momentum with television and Gus Grissom ; Godspeed, John Glenn ; Scott Carpenter, Telstar, and presidential space touring -- Projects Gemini and Apollo. "We choose to go to the moon": Rice University, September 12, 1962 ; Gemini Nine and Wally Schirra ; State of space exploration ; "The space effort must go on" ; Cape Kennedy -- Epilogue: The triumph of Apollo 11
520			_a"On the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley takes a fresh look at the American space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and the race to the moon. Just months after being elected President of the United States, John F. Kennedy made an astonishing announcement to the nation: we would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this engrossing epic of contemporary history, Douglas Brinkley returns to the 1960s to re-create one of humankind's most exciting and ambitious achievements. American Moonshot brings together the extraordinary political, cultural, and scientific factors that fueled the birth and development of NASA and the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo projects, which catapulted the United States to victory in the space race against the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. Drawing on new primary source material and recent scholarship, Brinkley brings to life this fascinating history as no one has before. American Moonshot is a portrait of the brilliant men and women who made this giant leap possible, the technology that enabled them to propel men beyond Earth's orbit to the moon and return them safely, and the geopolitical tensions that ignited Kennedy's audacious dream. At the center of this story is Kennedy himself. As Brinkley shows, the president's call to action was more than just soaring oratory--Kennedy was intimately involved in the creation of the space program, and he made it a top priority of his New Frontier agenda, fighting the tough political battles to make his vision a reality. Featuring a cast of iconic and sometimes controversial figures, such as rocketeer Wernher von Braun, astronaut John Glenn, and space booster Lyndon Johnson, American Moonshot is a vivid, enthralling chronicle of one of the nation's most thrilling, hopeful, and turbulent eras. This is living history at its finest--but also an homage to scientific ingenuity, engineering genius, human curiosity, and the boundless American spirit."--Jacket
600	1	0	_aKennedy, John F. _q(John Fitzgerald), _d1917-1963 _xInfluence
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bNational Aeronautics and Space Administration _xHistory _y20th century
650		0	_aSpace flight to the moon _xHistory _y20th century
650		0	_aSpace race _zUnited States
650		0	_aAstronautics and state _zUnited States.
650		0	_aManned space flight _xHistory _y20th century
650		0	_aAstronautics _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century
651		0	_aMoon _xExploration _xGovernment policy _zUnited States
655		4	_aNonfiction _2local
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast
655		0	_aPrint books. _2local _94
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