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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Kluger, Jeffrey, author.     Subjects     Project Apollo (U.S.)     Space flight to the moon.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kluger, Jeffrey, author.       by title:      Apollo 8 : the thril...         MARC Display

Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the Moon / Jeffrey Kluger. by Kluger, Jeffrey, author. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017. Subjects Project Apollo (U.S.)   Space flight to the moon. ISBN:  9781627798327 (hardcover) : 1627798323 (hardcover) Description:  307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aiea Public Library Adult Nonfiction 629.454 Kl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 629.454 Kl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 629.454 Kl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 629.454 Kl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 629.454 Kl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Nanakuli Public Library Adult Nonfiction 629.454 Kl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Public Library Adult Nonfiction 629.454 Kl Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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