Summary of Deke Slayton and Alan Shepard's Moon Shot

Slingshot Books

• Publisher: Slingshot Books
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9798350062885
• Topic: Tecnología e ingeniería
• Subtopic: Ingeniería aeronáutica y astronáutica

Get the Summary of Deke Slayton and Alan Shepard's Moon Shot in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Moon Shot (1994) is an enthralling account of NASA's earliest projects and the historic Apollo missions that carried humans to the lunar surface. It's the ultimate insider's guide, written by astronauts Deke Slayton and Alan Shepard with an assist from reporter Jay Barbree, who covered the US space program from its infancy. The 2011 edition includes a foreword from the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, who points out how the space race not only opened the door to new worlds but helped to break down the barriers of the Cold War as enemies learned to work together. Armstrong predicts that we will be back someday to the moon, where we can learn how to survive in space should our species ever need an alternative home...

Table of contents

• Overview
• Man and Moon
• NASA’s Early Days
• The Mercury Seven
• First Men in Space
• Kennedy’s Goal
• Early Losses
• The Aftermath
• The Soyuz Accident
• One Small Step…
• Apollo 14
• Faltering
• Authors’ Style
• Authors’ Perspective