Rocket MenThe Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
- Narrated by
Richard McGonagle
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- Edition:
- Unabridged (Penguin Audio)
- Length:
- 17 hours, 7 minutes
- File Size:
- 471 MB (14 files)
- Published:
- June 2009
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Summary
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.
Quotes from the Critics
"[T]his extensively researched account of [an] epic achievement,...Nelson moves seamlessly between [the] Apollo 11 astronauts, their nervous families and the equally nervous NASA ground crew." (starred review) - Publisher's Weekly
"Nelson makes good use of NASA oral histories to amplify and adjust what one remembers of the early Apollo missions....Among [his] achievements is the restoration of a certain grandeur to the moon itself..." - New York Times Book Review
"Craig Nelson's ROCKET MEN is a broad and often entertaining account. Based on 23,000 pages of NASA oral histories, interviews and other documentation, the book is also a fact-junkie's dream....Mr. Nelson offers an often gripping narrative of the roughly 240,000-mile flight (each direction), along the way answering several questions likely to pop up in the minds of landlubbers..." - Wall Street Journal
"Apollo 11 was something of a stunt, a flags-and-footprints mission in which science got short shrift. But what a stunt!...ROCKET MEN captures the drama and chaos of July 1969 and the almost unbearable tension of the moon landing....Nelson describes the landing so vividly that the engrossed reader isn't sure that Armstrong and crewmate Buzz Aldrin are going to make it." - Washington Post
"Craig Nelson's ROCKET MEN supplies a superb survey of the Cold War origins of the space race and a scintillating, suspenseful and surprising 'you are there' account of the ups and downs of the astronauts assigned to the 30-story-high Saturn V spaceship." - National Public Radio
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