Chasing the Moon thoroughly reimagines the race to the moon, upending much of the conventional mythology. With newly revealed stories about the moon race, from its earliest days to the monumental achievement of the lunar landing in 1969, the book features a diverse cast of characters who played key roles in these historic events.Utilising a wealth of previously overlooked and lost archival material, much of which has never before been revealed to the public, the Space Age is recast as a fascinating stew of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama in this fascinating new book.Among those included are astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Frank Borman and Bill Anders; Sergei Khrushchev, son of the former Soviet premier and a leading Soviet rocket engineer; Poppy Northcutt, a 25-year old ‘mathematics whiz’ who gained worldwide attention as the first woman to serve in the all-male bastion of NASA’s Mission Control; and Ed Dwight, the Air Force pilot selected by the Kennedy administration to train as America’s first black astronaut.
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Robert Stone. Chasing the Moon: The Story of the Space Race - from Arthur C. Clarke to the Apollo landings
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CONTENTS
PROLOGUE. JULY 16, 1969
CHAPTER ONE. A PLACE BEYOND THE SKY
CHAPTER TWO. THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON
CHAPTER THREE. THE NEW FRONTIER
CHAPTER FOUR. WELCOME TO THE SPACE AGE
CHAPTER FIVE. EARTHRISE
CHAPTER SIX. MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION
CHAPTER SEVEN. THE FINAL FRONTIER
APPENDIX. AFTER A FEW MORE REVOLUTIONS AROUND THE SUN
PICTURE SECTION
NOTES
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ABOUT THE TYPE
ABOUT THE BOOK
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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For my mother, who awakened her ten-year-old son in the middle of an English midsummer night to watch Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin make history as they walked on the Moon.
For Charlie, older brother and teenage rocket scientist, who, as the youngest accredited journalist covering the launch of Apollo 14, backpacked and hitchhiked 1200 miles to Cape Kennedy.
