Moon Shot : The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
by Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Howard Benedict
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Author: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Howard Benedict, Jay BarbreeEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-05
ISBN: 1878685546
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Turner Publishing
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- Blue hardcover with glt lettering, jacket showing the take off. 383 pages
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Book Review: A little bit of space fights from Mercury to Apollo -Soyuz. Deke and Alan Shepard's fight for flights
Summary: 5 Stars
Moon Shot is a great book. An easy read with good pictures. I've already read Deke about Deke Slayton and Light This Candle about Alan Shepard. I liked those books too. I've read many of the astronaut books...check my reviews.
Moon Shot gives a little run down about each of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo flights. Also Moon Shot goes a little into the Astronauts and some of the Cosmonauts lives too.
We see both Deke Slayton (Air Force pilot) and Alan Shepard (Navy aviator) are super hot shot fliers and become jet test pilots. Both get secret orders to report to the new NASA. Both pass the mustard, are the best of the best and become Mercury 7 astronauts.
The two themes of the book are the race between the US and Russia for space dominance and both astronauts getting grounded and their fights to get back into space. Deke had a heart fibrillation and Alan had an inner ear loss of balance disease.
Alan becomes America's first man in space with his Mercury flight but then is grounded for years. He later gets an operation and is flight cleared. Deke as the head astronaut helps Alan get A moon shot. Alan trains and trains and is the commander for Apollo 14 and is the 5th man on the moon.
Poor Deke never gets to go up until after he is over 50 with the last Apollo mission. By going on a vitamin regiment his heart fibrillation goes away and he is cleared by top cardiologists for space fight. He enjoys himself in weightlessness in space with the other 2 Apollo astronauts and 2 Cosmonauts in the Apollo-Soyuz docking mission.
Sadly so many of my boyhood heros have passed away. Deke Slayton, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Wally Shirra, Gordon Cooper, Pete Conrad and other astronauts and cosmonauts... All heroes that gave much for the exploration of space.
I'm an amateur astronomer of over 40 years who looks into the vastness of space with my telescope and agrees 100% with the ending of the book. We should populate many regions of space to ensure our species survival if our planet gets destroyed. Both Deke and Alan see from space how small and fragile our Earth is and how we should cherish and protect it but also as a human race expand into the Cosmos for our lasting survival.Deke says in the largeness of time about us going forward into space, the little he did for space exploration may be just be a blink of the eye.
More detailed information can be found with individual biographies of the astronauts but Moon Shot is great for getting a little info on many of the astronauts. 5 star
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