BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age

    (By Robert L. Stone)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 28 MB (28,087 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 682 times
    Last checked 15 Hour ago!
    Author Robert L. Stone
    “Book Descriptions: In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giant leap forward.

    A companion book to the landmark documentary series on BBC TV.
    The journey from Cape Canaveral to the Moon was a tremendous achievement of human courage and ingenuity. It was also a long, deadly march, haunted by the possibility of catastrophic failure on the world’s stage. In an era when the most advanced portable computer weighed 70 pounds, had a 36-kilobite memory and operated on less power than a 60-watt lightbulb, the sheer audacity of the goal is breath-taking. But the triumph of imagination and the unity of the Earth that day would change the world.

    Based on eyewitness accounts and newly discovered archival material, Chasing the Moon reveals the unknown stories of the individuals who made the Moon landing a possibility, from inspirational science fiction writer Arthur C. Clark and controversial engineer Wernher von Braun, to pioneers like mathematician Poppy Northcutt and astronaut Edward Dwight. It vividly revisits the dawn of the Space Age, a heady time of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

    ★★★★★

    Jeffrey Kluger

    Book 1

    The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

    ★★★★★

    Loren Grush

    Book 1

    Space Shuttle Stories: Firsthand Astronaut Accounts from All 135 Missions

    ★★★★★

    Tom Jones

    Book 1

    The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel

    ★★★★★

    Meredith Bagby

    Book 1

    The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

    ★★★★★

    James Holland

    Book 1

    Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her

    ★★★★★

    Rowland White

    Book 1

    Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

    ★★★★★

    Bill O'Reilly

    Book 1

    A Man on the Moon

    ★★★★★

    Andrew Chaikin

    Book 1

    Erebus: The Story of a Ship

    ★★★★★

    Michael Palin

    Book 1

    Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

    ★★★★★

    Adam Higginbotham

    Book 1

    The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

    ★★★★★

    Tim Marshall

    Book 1

    The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

    ★★★★★

    Kate Summerscale