05159cam a2200889 4500 598857748 TxAuBib 20220602120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781427286857 142728685X 2a947cfa-0fe3-4589-9321-26e8a656919c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3280855 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kluger, Jeffrey. Apollo 8 [Libby Audiobook] : The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon. Macmillan Audio, 2017. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 306MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 306MB. twentieth century history. nonfiction books on tape. non fiction audio books. best history books 2017. american space program. history books on tape. United States History. nonfiction audiobooks. 20th century History. Apollo space program. mission to the moon. audio books history. history audio books. american astronauts. audio history books. audiobooks history. science audiobooks. How We Got to Now. science audio cds. history audiobook. apollo astronauts. astronaut history. cold war history. us space program. american history. Cold War culture. history of nasa. science history. the space race. into the black. cold war books. space history. nasa history. frank borman. astronautics. moon landing. space travel. moon history. bill anders. apollo nasa. us history. astronauts. space race. Innovation. jim lovell. NASA book. von braun. HTML:This program includes a bonus conversation with Commander Frank Borman plus archival audio from Apollo 8's lunar orbit and from the cockpit during the mission. The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our blackest, bloodiest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. Written with all the color and verve of the best narrative non-fiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut's homes, from the test labs to the launch pad. The race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. Then, on Christmas Day, a nation that has suffered a horrendous year of assassinations and war is heartened by an inspiring message from the trio of astronauts in lunar orbit. And when the mission is over—after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry through the earth's atmosphere following a flight to deep space—the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach. The full story of Apollo 8 has never been told, and only Jeffrey Kluger—Jim Lovell's co-author on their bestselling book about Apollo 13—can do it justice. Here is the tale of a mission that was both a calculated risk and a wild crapshoot, a stirring account of how three American heroes forever changed our view of the home planet.. Technology. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-31 20:00:03. Troxell, Brian. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3280855-Apollo8.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2a947cfa-0fe3-4589-9321-26e8a656919c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3280855-Apollo8.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2a947cfa-0fe3-4589-9321-26e8a656919c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)