One Giant Leap; The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

Fishman, Charles

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, New York, 2019

1501106295 / 9781501106293

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xiii, [1], 464, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Sources/Bibliography. Index. Charles Fishman is an award-winning reporter and New York Times bestselling author, whose storytelling ranges from the busiest maternity ward in the U.S. to America's only bomb factory. His most recent book is One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew Us to the Moon, a rollicking retelling of the race to the Moon in the 1960s which became a New York Times bestseller in its first week. Fishman started his career in newspapers — beginning at the Washington Post as a reporter; then at the Orlando Sentinel as a Sunday magazine writer and editor; and eventually having responsibility for half the newsroom at the News & Observer in Raleigh, NC, as an assistant managing editor. He was a founding staff member of Fast Company magazine. Fishman is the author of The Wal-Mart Effect, the first book to pierce Wal-Mart's wall of secrecy and explain how the retailer really works; and of The Big Thirst, the bestselling book about water in a generation. He is the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller A Curious Mind, with Hollywood producer Brian Grazer. Early in his career, Fishman worked as a deckhand on a Mississippi River tugboat. As part of the reporting for One Giant Leap, he flew in zero-gravity. The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon. President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more surprised than the scientists and engineers at NASA, who suddenly had less than a decade to invent space travel. When Kennedy announced that goal, no one knew how to navigate to the Moon. No one knew how to build a rocket big enough to reach the Moon, or how to build a computer small enough (and powerful enough) to fly a spaceship there. No one knew what the surface of the Moon was like, or what astronauts could eat as they flew there. On the day of Kennedy s historic speech, America had a total of fifteen minutes of spaceflight experience with just five of those minutes outside the atmosphere. Russian dogs had more time in space than U.S. astronauts. Over the next decade, more than 400,000 scientists, engineers, and factory workers would send 24 astronauts to the Moon. Each hour of space flight would require one million hours of work back on Earth to get America to the Moon on July 20, 1969. Fifty years later, One Giant Leap is the sweeping, definitive behind-the-scenes account of the furious race to complete one of mankind's greatest achievements. It's a story filled with surprises, from the item the astronauts almost forgot to take with them (the American flag), to the extraordinary impact Apollo would have back on Earth, and on the way we live today. Charles Fishman introduces readers to the men and women who had to solve 10,000 problems before astronauts could reach the Moon. From the research labs of MIT, where the eccentric and legendary pioneer Charles Draper created the tools to fly the Apollo spaceships, to the factories where dozens of women sewed spacesuits, parachutes, and even computer hardware by hand, Fishman captures the exceptional feats of these ordinary Americans. One Giant Leap is the captivating story of men and women charged with changing the world as we knew it, their leaders, their triumphs, their near disasters, all of which led to arguably the greatest success story, and the greatest adventure story, of the twentieth century.…

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Titel
One Giant Leap; The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
Autor
Fishman, Charles
Verlag
Simon & Schuster, New York
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
Zustand
Very good
Schutzumschlag
Very good
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1501106295
ISBN-13
9781501106293
Auflage
Second printing [stated].
Verkäuferkataloge
Astronauts, Cold War, NASA

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