ISBN10: 1627798323, ISBN13: 9781627798327, [publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. 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.Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut's homes, and the race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. 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 ...
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New York: Henry Holt and Co.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Date: 2017. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 1627798323 . Hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, book and jacket are in excellent condition, there are no remarkable flaws, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, a fine gift copy, I still get chills down my spine when I remember myself as a 16-year-old, listening to Apollo 8's Christmas Eve message to the world while orbiting the moon; ; 308 pages . 2017. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 1627798323 9781627798327 [US]

USA: Henry Holt and Co., Date: 2017. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The full story of Apollo 8 has never been told, and only Jeffery Kluger - Jim Lovell's coauthor of the best selling book 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. A good, clean and tight copy.. 2017. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 1627798323 9781627798327 [GB]

New York: Henry Holt. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Date: 2017. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 307 pp. . 2017. Henry Holt ISBN 1627798323 9781627798327 [US]

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