Preface: Kennedy's New Ocean |
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1 Dr. Robert Goddard Meets Buck Rogers |
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2 Kennedy, Von Braun, and the Crucible of World War II |
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4 Who's Afraid of the V-2? |
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PART II GENERATION SPUTISIK |
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5 Spooked into the Space Race |
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7 Missile Gaps and the Creation of Nasa |
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8 Mercury Seven to the Rescue |
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10 Skyward with James Webb |
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11 Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard |
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12 "Going to the Moon": Washington, DC, May 25, 1961 |
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13 Searching for Moonlight in Tulsa and Vienna |
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265 | (18) |
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14 Moon Momentum with Television and Gus Grissom |
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16 Scott Carpenter, Telstar, and Presidential Space Touring |
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PART IV PROJECTS GEMINI AIVI) APOLLO |
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17 "We Choose to go to the Moon": Rice University, September 12, 1962 |
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18 Gemini Nine and Wally Schirra |
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19 STATE OF SPACE EXPLORATION |
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20 "The Space Effort Must go on" |
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Epilogue: The Triumph of Apollo 11 |
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Acknowledgments |
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Notes |
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Bibliography |
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Image Credits |
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Index |
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