Eight Years to the Moon
Author: Nancy Atkinson
Category: Other3
Published: 2019
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Read OnlineJuly 16, 2019 will be the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, celebrating an incredible decade in science history. In Eight Years to the Moon, unique personal stories of NASA engineers and MIT computer experts are interwoven with Nancy's gripping style to tell the story of Apollo 11 in a fresh and riveting way. Despite incredible hurdles and catastrophes, Apollo 11 launched a successful mission within President Kennedy's proposed timeline. The employees of NASA made the impossible possible—creating new technology and completely reimagining space travel. In Eight Years to the Moon, readers are transported into the space race of the 1960s. Nancy begins in 1962—when NASA had to build the Manned Spacecraft Center and space exploration first became a priority—and spans to the successful Apollo 11 mission. With firsthand accounts from Henry Pohl (director of engineering at Johnson Space Center), Glynn Lunney (Apollo flight director), and...
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