 | The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $1.53 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, despite the huge Soviet lead in man-hours of spaceflight at the time.
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 | Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard
Buy used from: $0.08 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
Buy used from: $16.97 An up-to-date (2007) mini-encyclopedia of space flight. Includes cutouts that show some of the technical details of spacecraft and rocket structure. Contains balanced coverage of both the American and the Soviet space programs.
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 | The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $5.50 A movie focusing on the Mercury 7 astronauts and their pioneering flights.
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 | Gemini: A Personal Account of Man's Venture into Space by Virgil I. Grissom
Buy used from: $12.99 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: $16.89 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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 | American Experience: Race to the Moon: The Daring Adventure of Apollo 8
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $19.47 This DVD includes seldom-mentioned facts about the Apollo 8 flight.
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 | Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 by Robert Zimmerman
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 The Apollo 8 flight in historic context.
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 | Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon by Craig Nelson
Buy new: $15.09 / Used from: $3.44 A new book commemorating the 40th anniversary of the epic journey of Apollo 11.
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 | Apollo 11: Men on the Moon
Buy used from: $86.99 This 3-disk DVD mini-encyclopedia of the Apollo 11 flight includes complete footage of the landing process, the moonwalk, and the ascent back into lunar orbit.
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 | Magnificent Desolation - Walking on the Moon (IMAX)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.85 A survey of the challenges of functioning on the lunar surface. Includes astronauts voices from the lunar surface, as well as a showing of the never-needed emergency procedure on the lunar surface.
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 | NOVA - To the Moon
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $5.48 From Sputnik (1957) through the end of the Apollo Program (1972)--a detailed documentary.
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 | In the Shadow of the Moon
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.99 Alan Bean, Michael Collins, James Lovell, Buzz Aldrin, Eugene Cernan, Charles Duke, John Young, Charles Duke, and Harrison Schmidt recount their moon-exploring experiences.
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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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 | Space by Andrew Chaikin
Buy used from: $0.16 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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 | Apollo 13 (Widescreen 2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $3.23 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: $2.99 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 James Lovell
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.74 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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 | Shuttle-MIR: The United States and Russia Share History's Highest Stage by Clay Morgan
Buy used from: $59.97 The space race of the 1960's gave way to US-Russian cooperation in spaceflights to the MIR space station in the 1990's.
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 | 2001 - A Space Odyssey
Buy used from: $3.46 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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