Item #25883 Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon. Introduction by Neil Armstrong. Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton.

Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon. Introduction by Neil Armstrong.

Atlanta: Turner Publishing Inc, 1994. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed "To Chuck, Alan Shepard" on titlepage. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation’s most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA’s effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the twentieth century’s greatest feat—landing humans on another world. Collaborating with NBC’s veteran space reporter Jay Barbree, Shepard and Slayton narrate in gripping detail the story of America’s space exploration from the time of Shepard’s first flight until he and eleven others had walked on the moon. Item #25883
ISBN: 1878685546

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