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Apollo 8 audiobook
- By: Jeffrey Kluger
- Narrator: Brian Troxell
- Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics, Technology & Engineering
- Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 16, 2017
- Language: English
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Apollo 8 Audiobook Summary
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.
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Apollo 8 Audiobook Narrator
Brian Troxell is the narrator of Apollo 8 audiobook that was written by Jeffrey Kluger
Jeffrey Kluger is the author of several books, including Apollo 13 (originally published as Lost Moon) and The Sibling Effect. As a science editor and senior writer for Time for more than two decades, he has written more than forty cover stories for the magazine. He lives in New York City.
About the Author(s) of Apollo 8
Jeffrey Kluger is the author of Apollo 8
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Apollo 8 Full Details
| Narrator | Brian Troxell |
| Length | 11 hours 8 minutes |
| Author | Jeffrey Kluger |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | May 16, 2017 |
| ISBN | 9781427286840 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Apollo 8 is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Aeronautics & Astronautics, Technology & Engineering
Additional info
The publisher of the Apollo 8 is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427286840.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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