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Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankind

At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in the presence of more than a million spectators who had gathered to witness a truly historic event. It carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins to the last frontier of human imagination: the moon.

Rocket Men is the thrilling story of the moon mission, and it restores the mystery and majesty to an event that may have become too familiar for most people to realize what a stunning achievement it represented in planning, technology, and execution.

Through interviews, twenty-three thousand pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on the space race, Craig Nelson re-creates a vivid and detailed account of the Apollo 11 mission. From the quotidian to the scientific to the magical, readers are taken right into the cockpit with Aldrin and Armstrong and behind the scenes at Mission Control.

Rocket Men is the story of a twentieth-century pilgrimage; a voyage into the unknown motivated by politics, faith, science, and wonder that changed the course of history.  more

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Blantant Commercialism

This book was clearly rushed into production to take advantage of Apollo 11's fortieth anniversary, and the result of this blantant comercialism is a book replete with errors-big and small-that should have been,and could have been,easily...

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Decent Hard Sci-Fi, but the Characters Need Work

Rocket Men is a rather preposterous novel about the United States sending a space craft to the moon in 1969. The story begins with the rocket on the launchpad, waiting for blast off, with brief flashbacks to the launch prep, as the...

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A flawed but fascinating history of Apollo 11

I noted that there's a lot of disagreements among reviewers, particularly over the author's portrayal of the technical aspects of the Apollo program. I'm not an engineer so can't comment, but I do think it's important to provide an...

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Too Many Factual Errors

This book offers a generally strong narrative of the technology, politics, and personal stories of the "space race" that culminated in the Apollo moon landings.Although I wanted to like this book, the continuing and frequent factual...

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Decent Hard Sci-Fi, but the Characters Need Work

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