Rocket men : the daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the astronauts who made man's first journey to the Moon

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Rocket men : the daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the astronauts who made man's first journey to the Moon

Title remainder

the daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the astronauts who made man's first journey to the Moon

Statement of responsibility

Robert Kurson

Title variation

Rocket men

Title variation remainder

the daring odyssey of Apollo eight

Creator

• Kurson, Robert

Author

• Kurson, Robert

Subject

• HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries
• HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
• Project Apollo (U.S.)
• Apollo 8 (Spacecraft)
• SCIENCE / Space Science
• Space flight to the moon
• Space flight to the moon
• Project Apollo (U.S.)
• Apollo 8 (Spacecraft)

Language

eng

Summary

Shares the inside story of the dangerous Apollo 8 mission, focusing on the lives of astronaut heroes Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, while illuminating the political factors that prompted the decision to risk lives to save the Apollo program and define the space race

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

629.45/4

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography