Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon

During the five decades following Alan Shepard's first launch in 1961, NASA's enormous accomplishments were respected and admired the world over. those responsible for the agencies success followed a simple axiom "good is the enemy of great."

Authors- Alan Shepard,  Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Howard Benedict
Publisher- New York: Simon & Schuster 2007

Annotation:  this book tells the never before told stories behind one of humanities greatest accomplishments the Apollo space program and how we got from Alan Shepard to the first steps of Neil Armstrong. all from one of the best people to tell it, Alan Shepard, a Memoir of sorts from the second person ever in space and the first American.

an intense drama playing out when everything is put on the line for science. 

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