Apollo, the Race to the MoonHere, for the first time, is the dramatic story of the Apollo space program. Murray and Cox recount how, in fewer than ten years, the men and women behind the scenes accomplished the extraordinary feat of landing a man on the moon--and changed the way we look at our world! |
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... later . “ Quit , stay second , or do something dramatic . He didn't think we could afford to quit , politically , and it was even worse to stay second . And so he decided to do something where we had a chance of really beating the ...
... later . “ Quit , stay second , or do something dramatic . He didn't think we could afford to quit , politically , and it was even worse to stay second . And so he decided to do something where we had a chance of really beating the ...
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... later when his Marshall team presented its most recent thinking on earth - orbit rendezvous . “ I think that was the occasion when some people felt that I had walked away from our proposal , ” he recalled later . “ On that flight back ...
... later when his Marshall team presented its most recent thinking on earth - orbit rendezvous . “ I think that was the occasion when some people felt that I had walked away from our proposal , ” he recalled later . “ On that flight back ...
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... later when EECOM reported again to Flight that Fuel Cell 1 and Fuel Cell 2 were on line . Fuel Cell 3 would come up again within seconds . The entry batteries could be taken off line . The spacecraft was alive again . a > Half a minute ...
... later when EECOM reported again to Flight that Fuel Cell 1 and Fuel Cell 2 were on line . Fuel Cell 3 would come up again within seconds . The entry batteries could be taken off line . The spacecraft was alive again . a > Half a minute ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
BOOK I | 19 |
I could picture the astronauts looking down | 37 |
Copyright | |
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