Description A Behind-the-Scenes Look At NASA's incredible Journey to the Moon Space journalist and insider Nancy Atkinson weaves together the riveting story of NASA's mission to complete the greatest adventure on which humankind ever embarked.
This incredible account is a keepsake celebrating some of the most important and dramatic events in modern history.
Told through over 60 personal interviews and oral histories, as well as personal photographs, this tribute to the men and women who made the Apollo 11 mission a reality chronicles the highs and lows that accompanied the race to the Moon: the devastating flash fire that killed the crew of Apollo 1; the awe of those who saw their years-in-the-making contributions to space exploration blast off from Cape Canaveral; the knuckle-biting descent of Apollo 11 to the lunar surface; a near-catastrophic event on the crew's flight home; the infectious excitement and jubilation across the world after the astronauts returned safely to Earth.
These little-known stories of the dedicated engineers, mathematicians and scientists in the 1960s reveal the hows of the Apollo missions and bring to life the wonder and excitement of humanity's first steps on the Moon.
About the Author Nancy Atkinson is a science journalist and author.
She has been with Universe Today since 2004 and has contributed articles to several other publications, including Ad Astra, Seeker, Space.
com, Wired and New Scientist.
Her first book, Incredible Stories From Space tells the behind the scenes tales of those who work on NASA's missions to explore the solar system and beyond.
Apollo 9 astronaut Russell L.
(Rusty) Schweickart is a retired business and government executive.
He co-founded the B612 Foundation, a private nonprofit foundation that champions the development of spaceflight capability to protect Earth from future asteroid impacts.
Schweickart is also founder and past president of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE), the international professional soc.
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Page Street Publishing Eight years to the moon: the history of the apollo missions, hardcover/nancy atkinson
