Chasing the Moon - Robert Stone, Alan Andres
Robert Stone, Robert L. Stone, Alan Andres
Category: History
Tags: History, Misc. Non-fiction, Adults
JFK issued the historic moon landing challenge. These are the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete his vision with the first lunar landing fifty years ago., A Companion Book to the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Film on PBS, Going in depth to explore their stories beyond the PBS series, writer/producer Robert Stonecalled one of our most important documentary filmmakers by Entertainment Weeklybrings these important figures to brilliant life., In 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed the nation spend twenty billion dollars to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. Based on eyewitness accounts and newly discovered archival material, Chasing the Moon reveals for the first time the unknown stories of the fascinating individuals whose imaginative work across several decades culminated in Americas momentous achievement. More than a story of engineers and astronauts, the moon landingnow celebrating its fiftieth anniversarygrew out of the dreams of science fiction writer
