Moon Shot : The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings (Paperback)

from john257hopper

I really enjoyed this. Although it isn't actually written by Shepard and Slayton themselves, they were clearly the main focuses of the journalist author's writing. The quality of the writing was I thought very evocative and moving and really brought home the majesty and significance of the Apollo...

from Charlie

While this is a history of the American program to put humans in space and ultimately on the moon, the focus is on the authors. Alan Shepard and Donald Deke Slayton were two of the original seven Mercury astronauts. Shepard was the first American into space while Slayton was grounded for many yea...

from DarthDeverell

Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton's Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon traces the history of American spaceflight from the earliest postwar experiments with captured German V-2 rockets through Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project flights. Shepar...

from jfe16

In this revised edition of the 1994 book, astronauts Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton narrate the story of America's space exploration from the time of the first suborbital flight until shortly after astronauts walked on the moon. Proclaimed “the ultimate inside story of the United States space prog...

from RobertP

Struck me as too rah-rah and did not nearly accord with what I knew already about Nasa.