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Author Craig Nelson 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, 23,000 pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Behemoth
- The general's command
- Anything but what he is
- The sons of Galileo
- Mr. Cool Stone
- Don't eat toads
- A way to talk to God
- How the pyramids were built
- Total cold war
- The bluff at Nobleman's Grave
- The fluid front
- The transfiguration
- The Great Black Sea
- The birth of the moon
- The Eagle has wings
- One of those sad days when you lose a machine
- "Mr. President, the Eagle has landed"
- To rediscover childhood
- A tenuous grasp
- We missed the whole thing
- Through you, we touched the moon
- When all those curves lined up.