Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon.
Atlanta: Turner Publishing Inc, 1994. Third Printing of the First Hardcover Edition. A Fine tight hardcover copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by astronauts Alan Shepard, Walt Cunningham and Gordon Cooper on the half title. 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 #29571
ISBN: 1878685546
Price: $650.00