Rocket Men The Epic Story of the First Men on

The thrilling story of the Apollo Moon mission 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.

Craig Nelson is the author of four previous books, including The First Heroes and Let's Get Lost. His writings have appeared in Salon, The New England Review, Blender, Genre, and a host of other publications. He was an editor at HarperCollins, Hyperion, and Random House for almost twenty years and has been profiled by Variety, Interview, Manhattan, Inc., and Time Out.


Behemoth	p. 3
The General's Command	p. 11
Anything but What He Is	p. 17
The Sons of Galileo	p. 32
Mr. Cool Stone	p. 42
Don't Eat Toads	p. 57
A Way to Talk to God	p. 71

How the Pyramids Were Built	p. 89
Total Cold War	p. 111
The Bluff at Nobleman's Grave	p. 135
The Fluid Front	p. 145
The Transfiguration	p. 180

The Great Black Sea	p. 207
The Birth of the Moon	p. 216
The Eagle Has Wings	p. 232
One of Those Sad Days When You Lose a Machine	p. 237
"Mr. President, the Eagle Has Landed"	p. 264
To Rediscover Childhood	p. 277
A tenuous Grasp	p. 291
We Missed the Whole Thing	p. 306
Through You, We Touched the Moon	p. 316
When All Those Curves Lined Up	p. 324
Acknowledgement	p. 353
Notes	p. 355
Sources	p. 377
Index	p. 395
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Rocket Men The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

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