American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race

Brinkley, Douglas, author.

First editon.

Book

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]

xxv, 548 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, Brinkley takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon.

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Influence.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- History -- 20th century.

Project Mercury (U.S.)

Project Gemini (U.S.)

Project Apollo (U.S.)

Astronautics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Manned space flight -- History -- 20th century.

Space flight to the moon -- History -- 20th century.

Space race -- United States.

Astronautics and state -- United States.

Astronautics -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Moon -- Exploration -- Government policy -- United States.

Preface: Kennedy's new ocean -- Part I: Rockets. Dr. Robert Goddard meets Buck Rogers -- Kennedy, von Braun, and the crucible of World War II -- Surviving a savage war -- Who's afraid of the V-2? -- Part II: Generation Sputnik. Spooked into the space race -- Sputnik revolution -- Missile gaps and the creation of NASA -- Mercury Seven to the rescue -- Kennedy for President -- Part III: Moonbound. Skyward with James Webb -- Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard -- "Going to the moon": Washington, DC, May 25, 1961 -- Searching for moonlight in Tulsa and Vienna -- Moon momentum with television and Gus Grissom -- Godspeed, John Glenn -- Scott Carpenter, Telstar, and presidential space touring -- Part IV: Projects Gemini and Apollo. "We choose to go to the moon": Rice University, September 12, 1962 -- Gemini Nine and Wally Schirra -- State of space exploration -- "The space effort must go on" -- Cape Kennedy -- Epilogue: The triumph of Apollo 11.

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