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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... turned down a chance to go to the Command and General Staff School . He was now head of the Heavy Space Vehicle Systems Office in Kurt Debus's Launch Operations Directorate . On May 25 , Petrone was preoccupied with working out last ...
... turned down a chance to go to the Command and General Staff School . He was now head of the Heavy Space Vehicle Systems Office in Kurt Debus's Launch Operations Directorate . On May 25 , Petrone was preoccupied with working out last ...
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... turned out to be the best thing that could have happened , or the right person turned up at the right time , or a malfunction that would have been disastrous on one mission happened on another where it was not disastrous . The first ...
... turned out to be the best thing that could have happened , or the right person turned up at the right time , or a malfunction that would have been disastrous on one mission happened on another where it was not disastrous . The first ...
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... turned from the desk toward the comm box to call George Page down in the blockhouse . As he turned , there was a venting sound , a sort of WHOOOOSH !, followed by what seemed to Babbitt to be a sheet of flame shooting from the ...
... turned from the desk toward the comm box to call George Page down in the blockhouse . As he turned , there was a venting sound , a sort of WHOOOOSH !, followed by what seemed to Babbitt to be a sheet of flame shooting from the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
BOOK I | 19 |
I could picture the astronauts looking down | 37 |
Copyright | |
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