“An extraordinary delight for a reader of any age.” —The New York Times Book Review Brian Floca explores Apollo 11’s famed moon landing with this newly expanded edition of Moonshot!
I remember when we visited Sam Walton in Bentonville, Arkansas. I was thirty years old and Mr. Walton, who was already growing the Walmart chain, was an imposing figure to a young marketing person like me. Nevertheless, we decided we ...
The American engineer Robert Goddard also read Verne's stories as a young boy. Goddard would make notes about Verne's calculations in the margins of the novels and later credited the stories with spark. ing his lifelong interest in ...
Drawing on the seminal 1961 Moonshot story of President Kennedy as well as real-life stories from the authors’ work, The Moonshot Effect steps you through the elements of a successful moonshot, from assembling a high performance team, ...
This is living history at its finest—but also an homage to scientific ingenuity, engineering genius, human curiosity, and the boundless American spirit.
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
Baseball wasn’t supposed to be a game of life and death.
In the midst of the turmoil, for many people a rocket launch, or 'shot' in US terms, was an exhilaratingdistraction, and of course nothing would represent sparkling success — American success — more than NASAs Moon shot.
Collaborating with NBC's veteran space reporter Jay Barbree, Shepard and Slayton narrate in gripping detail the story of America's space exploration from the time of Shepard's first flight until he and eleven others had walked on the moon.
Moonshots shows you what it takes. Read this book to learn how to develop the mindset that can make anything happen.