 | The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Buy used from: $24.94 A good rendition of the Mercury Program. Did you know that Alan Shepard wanted to fly a 3-day Mercury mission in 1963? This was never done.
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 | Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard
Buy used from: $0.01 A history of space flight from 1957 to 1975, and a thrilling testimony of two astronauts who were grounded. Yet they never gave up hope, and worked so hard to get their wings back.
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 | Spaceflight: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Shuttle - and Beyond by Giles Sparrow
An up-to-date (2007) mini-encyclopedia of space flight. Includes cutouts that show some of the technical details of spacecraft and rocket structure. Balances the attention devoted to the American and Soviet space programs.
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 | Space by Andrew Chaikin
Buy used from: $1.52 Yes, Virginia, there was a space race in the 1960's, between the USA and the Soviet Union, for landing the first man on the moon. This book shows pictures of the never-used Soviet manned lunar craft. It also includes post-Apollo events such as the flights of Skylab.
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 | The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $12.62 A movie focusing on the Mercury 7 astronauts and their pioneering flights.
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 | 2001 - A Space Odyssey
Buy used from: $4.72 In the heady days of the 1960's, there was talk of manned space flight to the planets well before 2000. It didn't turn out that way, but we can always fantasize about man's first space travel to Jupiter. Hence this movie.
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 | Gemini: A Personal Account of Man's Venture into Space by Virgil I. Grissom
Buy used from: $51.30 A childhood favorite. This focuses on the Mercury and especially the early part of the Gemini Program. Since Gus Grisson was killed in the Apollo 1 fire of January 1967, Grissom's widow completed the latter part of this book.
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 | Apollo 8: Leaving the Cradle
Buy used from: $48.00 A comprehensive set of audios, photos, and TV transmissions from and related to the Apollo 8 flight--the first one to venture more than several hundred miles from Earth. More than 4 hours of listening and viewing pleasure.
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 | Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 by Robert Zimmerman
Buy used from: $0.01 The Apollo 8 flight in historic context.
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| To The Moon by Michael Kapp
A keepsake mini-encyclopedia (consisting of a book and six phonograph records) that record the sights and sounds of space flight through the Apollo 11 moon landing. Sputnik, Shepard, Glenn, White, Borman and Lovell, Armstrong, etc., are all there.
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 | Apollo 13 (Widescreen 2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $3.71 A riveting movie that captures the drama of the near-disaster of Apollo 13 in April 1970
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 | Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jeffrey Kluger
Buy used from: $1.83 Provides a fair amount of useful technical detail about the fate of Apollo 13 following the oxygen-tank explosion, and the challenges of bringing the crippled spacecraft safely back to Earth
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 | Apollo 13 by Jeffrey Kluger
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Updates an earlier edition of a book on Apollo 13. This new edition includes discussion of the Challenger Disaster of 1986
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