In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War,
the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth
of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission
of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giant leap
forward. A companion book to the landmark documentary series on BBC
TV. The journey from Cape Canaveral to the Moon was a tremendous
achievement of human courage and ingenuity. It was also a long,
deadly march, haunted by the possibility of catastrophic failure on
the world's stage. In an era when the most advanced portable
computer weighed 70 pounds, had a 36-kilobite memory and operated
on less power than a 60-watt lightbulb, the sheer audacity of the
goal is breath-taking. But the triumph of imagination and the unity
of the Earth that day would change the world. Based on eyewitness
accounts and newly discovered archival material, Chasing the Moon
reveals the unknown stories of the individuals who made the Moon
landing a possibility, from inspirational science fiction writer
Arthur C. Clark and controversial engineer Wernher von Braun, to
pioneers like mathematician Poppy Northcutt and astronaut Edward
Dwight. It vividly revisits the dawn of the Space Age, a heady time
of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle,
visionary impulses and personal drama.
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