Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon
It is 25 years since Neil Armstrong made man’s first triumphant lunar landing. Now Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, two pioneering astronaughts, reveal the human cost of the bitter struggle between the Superpowers to be first on the moon. In this unique first-hand account of the space race the authors dislose facts about events that made headlines across the world including the hideous truth about Apollo 1 and a navigation error that nearly resulted in Neil Armstrong and his crew being stranded on the moon in Apollo 11. And yet this book is also a powerful story of intense human drama, focusing on the men behind the heroes – the successes, the disappointments and even the tragedies that shaped the world of those men that risked everything to launch and fly America’s spaceships.
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Deke Slayton was one of the first seven Mercury astronauts–and he might have been the first American in space. Instead, he became the first chief of American Astronaut Corps. It was Deke Slayton who selected the crews who flew the Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab missions. It was Deke Slayton who made Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon.
Deke! is Deke Slayton’s’ story–told in his own words and in the voices of the men and women who worked with him and knew him best. Deke Slayton’s knowl
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