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020 _a1432843478
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100 1 _aKluger, Jeffrey,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aApollo 8 :
_bthe thrilling story of the first mission to the moon /
_cJeffrey Kluger.
246 3 _aApollo eight
250 _aLarge print edition.
264 1 _aWaterville, Maine :
_bThorndike Press,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a551 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_bblack and white illustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
340 _nlarge print
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490 1 _aThorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 _aIn August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. Written with all the color and verve of the best narrative nonfiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronauts' homes, from the test labs to the launchpad. The race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. Then, on Christmas Day, a nation that has suffered a horrendous year of assassinations and war is heartened by an inspiring message from the trio of astronauts in lunar orbit. And when the mission is over -- after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earthrise, and the first reentry through the Earth's atmosphere following a flight to deep space -- the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach.
610 2 0 _aProject Apollo (U.S.)
_930531
610 2 0 _aApollo 8 (Spacecraft)
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650 0 _aSpace flight to the moon.
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655 0 _aLarge type books.
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830 0 _aThorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.
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