Shoot for the Moon

The Space Race and the Voyage of Apollo 11

By: James Donovan

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Paperback | 15 August 2019

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464 Pages

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23.1 x 16.5 x 4.0

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Fifty years after the Apollo 11 mission made history, this book tells the epic story of the astronauts, flight controllers and engineers who made it happen.

On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon, a moment ingrained in modern memory. Perhaps the world's greatest technological achievement - and a triumph of spirit and ingenuity - the Apollo 11 mission and the Apollo program was a mammoth undertaking involving more than 410,000 men and women dedicated to winning the Space Race with the Soviets.

Seen through the eyes of those who lived it, Shoot for The Moon reveals the dangers, the challenges and the sheer determination that defined not only Apollo 11, but also the Mercury and Gemini missions that made it possible. Both sweeping and intimate, and based on exhaustive research and dozens of fresh interviews, this is the definitive - and thrilling - account of one of humankind's most extraordinary feats of exploration.

Industry Reviews

'The best book on Apollo that I have read.' -- Mike Collins, Command Module Pilot on Apollo 11
'Shoot for the Moon is sure to be a space race classic.' -- Annie Jacobsen, bestselling author & Pulitzer Prize finalist
'A fascinating insight into the golden age of space exploration' -- Tim Peake
'With Shoot for the Moon, James Donovan captures it all - the science, the engineering, the clashing egos, the Cold War politics. But what's even more impressive, he does it without depriving us of the essential magic that was Apollo, this Promethean program that dared to aim as high and as far as man could go' -- Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers, In the Kingdom of Ice, and On Desperate Ground

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