One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon,Used

One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon,Used

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The New York Times bestselling, meticulously researched and absorbingly written (The Washington Post) story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic Apollo 11 moon mission.President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more surprised than the scientists and engineers at NASA, who suddenly had less than a decade to invent space travel.When Kennedy announced that goal, no one knew how to navigate to the Moon. No one knew how to build a rocket big enough to reach the Moon, or how to build a computer small enough (and powerful enough) to fly a spaceship there. No one knew what the surface of the Moon was like, or what astronauts could eat as they flew there. On the day of Kennedys historic speech, America had a total of fifteen minutes of spaceflight experiencewith just five of those minutes outside the atmosphere. Russian dogs had more time in space than US astronauts. Over the next decade, more than 400,000 scientists, engineers, and factory workers would send twentyfour astronauts to the Moon. Each hour of space flight would require one million hours of work back on Earth to get America to the Moon on July 20, 1969.A veteran space reporter with a vibrant touchnearly every sentence has a fact, an insight, a colorful quote or part of a piquant anecdote (The Wall Street Journal) and in One Giant Leap, Fishman has written the sweeping, definitive behindthescenes account of the furious race to complete one of mankinds greatest achievements. Its a story filled with surprisesfrom the item the astronauts almost forgot to take with them (the American flag), to the extraordinary impact Apollo would have back on Earth, and on the way we live today. From the research labs of MIT, where the eccentric and legendary pioneer Charles Draper created the tools to fly the Apollo spaceships, to the factories where dozens of women sewed spacesuits, parachutes, and even computer hardware by hand, Fishman captures the exceptional feats of these ordinary Americans. Its been 50 years since Neil Armstrong took that one small step. Fishman explains in dazzling form just how unbelievable it actually was (Newsweek).

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