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    Apollo 11: The Inside Story
    Apollo 11: The Inside Story
    Apollo 11: The Inside Story
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    Apollo 11: The Inside Story

    Written by David Whitehouse

    Narrated by Simon Mattacks

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    Informed by extensive interviews with astronauts such as Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan, David Scott, John Young, Alan Shepard, Charlie Duke, Al Bean, Gordon Cooper, Al Worden, Walt Cunningham, Tom Stafford, Dick Gordon, John Glenn, Pete Conrad, Edgar Mitchel, James Irwin, Stu Roosa, Ron Evans, Deke Slayton, Wally Schirra, as well as key politicians and NASA personnel

    Fifty years ago in July 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land on the moon, and Neil Armstrong the first man to step onto its surface. President Nixon called it the greatest week since creation.

    In the most authoritative book ever written about Apollo, David Whitehouse reveals the true drama behind the mission, telling the story in the words of those who took part—based around exclusive interviews with the key players.

    This enthralling book takes us from the early rocket pioneers to the shock America received from the Soviets’ launch of the first satellite, Sputnik; from the race to put the first person into space, through President Kennedy’s enthusiasm and later doubts, to the astronauts’ intense competition to leave the first footprint.

    Here is the story as told by the crew of Apollo 11 and the many other astronauts who paved the way or went to the moon themselves after Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins. Astronauts, engineers, politicians, NASA officials, Soviet rivals—all tell their own story of a great moment of human achievement.

    The full list of interviewees includes NASA employees such as James Fletcher, Roco Petrone, Brainerd Homes, Bob Gilruth, George Mueller, James Webb, John Houbolt, Robert Seamans, Max Faget, Director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory William Pickering and Sergei Khrushchev, son of Soviet Premier.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 11, 2019
    ISBN9781721386604
    Author

    David Whitehouse

    David Whitehouse is the author of Mobile Library and Bed, winner of the 2012 Betty Trask Prize and published in eighteen countries. He has several TV and film projects in development with Film4, Warp, the BBC, and others. In the UK, he writes regularly for the Guardian and The Times and is currently the Editor-at-Large of ShortList magazine.

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    • 5/5
      Great listen! But why oh why would the job of narrating what is arguably one of America's biggest achievements be given to a British?!! If I had heard "sheduled" one more time, I would have had to turn somebody into a crumpet!
    • 5/5
      A good comparison book about the US - USSR space race!
    • 4/5
      i love the subject, so i'm going to go with: my rating and comments are not really impartial. found out some more wonderful details about the subject, and for me that makes the book a useful tool. also gave me the will to find out more about things that i didn't know or now thing that are interesting enough to do it so. so, all and all, a nice book.
    • 5/5
      In this engrossing book, the author utilizes exclusive interviews with those intimately involved in the drama of the Apollo 11 lunar mission to look at the mission within the context of the larger drama of the space race. From the days of the early space pioneers through NASA’s Apollo program, the crew, other astronauts, engineers, NASA officials, politicians, and even the Soviets tell the story of humanity’s great achievement. Included with the narrative are an extensive section of both color and black and white photographs, a bibliography, and a listing of source materials. Highly recommended.