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Apollo

By: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox

Narrated by: Bob Souer

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Apollo is the behind-the-scenes story of an epic achievement. Based on exhaustive research that included many exclusive interviews, Apollo tells how America went from a standing start to a landing on the moon at a speed that now seems impossible. It describes the unprecedented engineering challenges that had to be overcome to create the mammoth Saturn V and the facilities to launch it. It takes you onto the gantries at Cape Canaveral and behind the consoles of Houston's Mission Control as it relives the tragedy of the fire on Apollo 1, the first descent to the lunar surface, and the rescue of Apollo 13.

A story of daring bordering on recklessness on the ground and life-and-death decisions made in seconds during the flights, Apollo captures the drama of humans leaving Earth for the first time.

Aeronautics & Astronautics

Americas

Astronomy & Space Science

Expeditions & Discoveries

Physics

Science

United States

World

Thought-Provoking

Inspiring

US Air Force

Air Force

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Despite being nearly 30 years old, this is still a fascinating account of an epic story. The anecdotes it recounts of the characters involved in America’s pursuit of Kennedy’s goal of “We go to the Moon” is truly inspirational. Be your interest science, engineering, management approaches or just plain adventure, the story of Apollo has it all and this is the best account of it I have read to-date (although Gene Kranz’s autobiography Failure Is Not an Option runs it a close second). The narration could have been better, sounding at times like a synthesized voice but, when the story is this good, it really doesn’t matter that much… Straight onto my (very short) list of books for re-reading at a later date.