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  • Apollo 8

  • The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
  • Auteur(s): Jeffrey Kluger
  • Narrateur(s): Brian Troxell
  • Durée: 11 h et 8 min
  • 4,9 out of 5 stars (19 évaluations)

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Apollo 8

Auteur(s): Jeffrey Kluger
Narrateur(s): Brian Troxell
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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 16 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 nonfiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronauts' homes, from the test labs to the launchpad. 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 reentry 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 coauthor on their best-selling 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.

©2017 Jeffrey Kluger (P)2017 Macmillan Audio
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amazing

I remember as a kid watching the Apollo missions on TV...I was and still am fascinated with space. This book is a most awesome read /listen.

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Kluger did justice to this amazing voyage

Apollo 8 is overshadowed by Apollo 11, the moon landing. That is the injustice that Kluger sets right in this exceptionally fine work. The author's writing and organization maintain a balance of the all elements that contributed to this mission; a difficult task for such a complex matter. It really came alive.

Kluger successfully conveys what it was like to be an astronaut, or even a member of one of the support groups, for the Gemini and Apollo missions. I thought I understood, but I did not (... and you can keep that damn job, thanks).

The narration was as good as it gets. The addition of the actual recorded conversations, included in the final half hour of the book, bring the listener even closer to this epic story.

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