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Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon |  | Author: Craig Nelson
Publisher: Viking Adult
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0670021032
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.4540973
EAN: 9780670021031
ASIN: 0670021032
Publication Date: June 25, 2009
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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.
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 One of the worst space books ever published. November 20, 2009
Air & Space worker. (California.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Engagingly written, but riddled with hundreds of basic errors. This book is a work of fan fiction that should never have been published by any reputable publishing house. Avoid it if you wish to know what really happened in those thrilling years.
 He blew it November 18, 2009
C. Hurwitz (Asia)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
He took one of the more exciting stories of the past century and ruined it by making it dull. It reminds me on an essay that someone had to write for a college course with many long quotes and the use of big numbers. He also should have ended it shortly after splashdown. Instead it drags on
For Want of a Better Editor October 25, 2009
Richard Stachurski (Bellevue, WA USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Mr. Nelson apparently has no technical background. If his editors at Viking had considered that circumstance they might have arranged for a technical review that could have corrected multiple errors. I could cite several, but one will be sufficient to make my point--on page 229 Mr. Nelson writes that the surface temperature of the Moon in darkness is "minus one hundred kelvins." Minus kelvins? I rest my case.
 Great entertaining read October 25, 2009
N. Gurnagul (Somewhere in Quebec)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
A large number of books on the Apollo space program are technically accurate but are quite dry. I found this book to be quite entertaining and a quick read. Although the pacing was not linear this did not bother me as I am quite familiar with the Apollo program. I found the book's strength was not so much on the technical details but more so on how the author placed the U.S. space program in context with the geopolitical factors operating during the 1960's. The discussions on the impact of the cold war on the U.S. space program were quite illuminating as were the quotes from the astronauts as well as others involved in the space program.
 Fascinating September 25, 2009
Mike Birdsall
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
The book started out slowly. I really enjoyed when they described the minute by minute sequence to the launch. The description of what they felt and saw on the moon was awesome. I was let down though on the return to Earth. They didn't give me the details as to how that felt? How fast did they go? What did splashdown feel like?
Beyond that missing link, it was a great read.
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