02421cim a2200433 i 4500 366169124 TxAuBib 20180425120000.0 d 170713s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780525527008 0525527001 9780525527008 (OCoLC)993996467 BTCTA eng rda BTCTA BDX TEF BLACP TxAuBib rda Kurson, Robert. Rocket men : the daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the astronauts who made man's first journey to the moon / Robert Kurson. Unabridged. [New York : Random House Audio, 2018. 10 audio discs (12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. spw rdacontent s rdamedia sd rdacarrier Title from web page. Compact discs. Read by Ray Porter with a note and sources read by the author. In early 1968, the Apollo program was on shaky footing. President Kennedy's end-of-decade deadline to put a man on the Moon was in jeopardy, and the Soviets were threatening to pull ahead in the space race. By August 1968, with its back against the wall, NASA decided to scrap its usual methodical approach and shoot for the heavens. With just four months to prepare, a fraction of the normal time, the agency would send the first men in history to the Moon. In a year of historic violence and discord, the Tet offensive, the assassinations of MLK and RFK, the Chicago DNC riots, the Apollo 8 mission was the boldest test of what America could do. With a focus on astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, and their wives and children, this is a vivid, gripping, narrative that shows anew the epic danger involved, and the singular bravery it took, for man to leave Earth for the first time, and to arrive at a new world. 20180425. Anders, William A William Alison 1933- Lovell, Jim. Borman, Frank 1928 March 14- Project Apollo (U.S.) Space flight to the moon. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. SCIENCE / Space Science. HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries. Audiobooks. Porter, Ray, 1965-, narrator.