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The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
By: James Donovan
Narrated by: Allan Robertson
Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 03-12-19
Language: English
Genre: History, 20th Century
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Format: mp3 64/44.1 stereo
Publisher's Summary
"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." (Mike Collins, Command module pilot, Apollo 11)
For the 50th anniversary, the epic story of Apollo 11 and the astronauts, flight controllers, and engineers who made it happen, by the author of the best-selling A Terrible Glory and The Blood of Heroes
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon, a moment forever ingrained in history. Perhaps the world's greatest technological achievement - and a triumph of American spirit and ingenuity - the Apollo 11 mission, and the entire Apollo program, was a mammoth undertaking involving more than 410,000 men and women dedicated to putting a man on the Moon and winning the Space Race against the Soviets.
Seen through the eyes of the those who lived it, Shoot for the Moon reveals the dangers, the challenges, and the sheer determination that defined not only Apollo 11, but also the Mercury and Gemini missions that made it possible. Both sweeping and intimate, and based on exhaustive research and dozens of fresh interviews, best-selling author James Donovan's Shoot for the Moon is the definitive and thrilling account of one of humankind's most extraordinary feats of exploration.
©2019 James Donovan (P)2019 Hachette Audio
Critic Reviews
"Donovan combines his masterful research skills and narrative gifts in recounting the full story of the most famous Apollo trip...Donovan's history is a powerfully written and irresistible celebration of the Apollo missions." (Booklist, starred review)
"It was one of humankind's greatest achievements, and here, perhaps for the first time, is the whole story, fastidiously reported and elegantly told. With Shoot for the Moon, James Donovan captures it all - the science, the engineering, the clashing egos, the Cold War politics. But what's even more impressive, he does it without depriving us of the essential magic that was Apollo, this Promethean program that dared to aim as high and as far as man could go." (Hampton Sides, author, Ghost Soldiers, In the Kingdom of Ice, and On Desperate Ground)
"With a brilliant eye for detail and an elegant sense of historical narrative, Donovan's Shoot for the Moon is sure to be a space race classic." (Annie Jacobsen, best-selling author & Pulitzer Prize finalist)
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