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020			_a9781982130152 _cRM 89.90 _qpaperback
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100	1		_aFishman, Charles, _eauthor. _d1961-
245	1	0	_aONE GIANT LEAP : _cCHARLES FISHMAN. _bTHE IMPOSSIBLE MISSION THAT FLEW US TO THE MOON /
250			_aFirst Simon & Schuster paperback export edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster Paperbacks ; _c2019
264		4	_c©2019
300			_a464 pages : _c23 cm _bblack and white photographs;
336			_2rdacontent _atext
336			_2rdacontent _astill image
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aPresident John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States would land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more surprised than the engineers at NASA. On the day of the historic speech, America had a total of fifteen minutes of spaceflight experience -- with just five of those minutes outside the atmosphere. In fact, Soviet canines had more spaceflight experience than US astronauts. To fulfill President Kennedy's mandate, NASA engineers had to invent space travel. When Kennedy announced his goal, no one knew how to navigate to the Moon. No one knew how to build a rocket big enough to fly to the Moon. No one knew how to build a computer small enough to put on that rocket. No one knew how to feed astronauts in space, and no one knew how astronauts would even use the bathroom in space. And NASA had just nine years to make it happen. Here, Charles Fishman introduces readers to the men and women tasked with putting a man on the moon. From the labs of MIT, where the eccentric and legendary digital pioneer Charles Draper created the two computers aboard Apollo 11, to the factories where hundreds of women sewed spacesuits, and even computer programs by hand, Fishman captures the sweeping achievement of these ordinary Americans. This is the captivating story of men and women charged with changing the world as we know it -- their leaders, their triumphs, their near disasters, all of which led to arguably the greatest success story of the twentieth century.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bNational Aeronautics and Space Administration _xHistory.
610	1	0	_aProject Apollo (U.S.) _xHistory.
650		0	_aSpace flight to the moon _xHistory.
650		0	_aSpace flight to the moon _xHistory. _zUnited States
650		0	_aAstronautics _xHistory. _zUnited States
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