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

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ISBN: 9780062655066
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xxv, 548 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.

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American Moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

by Brinkley, Douglas

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Preface: Kennedy's New Ocean	p. xi
Part I	Rockets
1	Dr. Robert Goddard Meets Buck Rogers	p. 3
2	Kennedy, Von Braun, and the Crucible of World War II	p. 21
3	Surviving a Savage War	p. 41
4	Who's Afraid of the V-2?	p. 61
Part II	Generation Sputnik
5	Spooked into the Space Race	p. 93
6	Sputnik Revolution	p. 125
7	Missile Gaps and the Creation of Nasa	p. 155
8	Mercury Seven to the Rescue	p. 181
9	Kennedy for President	p. 191
Part III	Moonbound
10	Skyward with James Webb	p. 209
11	Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard	p. 223
12	"Going to the Moon": Washington, DC, May 25, 1961	p. 247
13	Searching for Moonlight in Tulsa and Vienna	p. 265
14	Moon Momentum with Television and Gus Grissom	p. 283
15	Godspeed, John Glenn	p. 307
16	Scott Carpenter, Tel Star, and Presidential Space Touring	p. 335
Part IV	Projects Gemini and Apollo
17	"We Choose to Go to the Moon: Rice University, September 12, 1962	p. 359
18	Gemini Nine and Wally Schirra	p. 373
19	State of Space Exploration	p. 395
20	"The Space Effort Must Go On"	p. 413
21	Cape Kennedy	p. 431
	Epilogue: The Triumph of Apollo 11	p. 449
	Acknowledgments	p. 463
	Notes	p. 471
	Bibliography	p. 515
	Image Credits	p. 527
	Index	p. 529