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100 1  Kurson, Robert,|eauthor. 
245 10 Rocket men :|bthe daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the 
       astronauts who made man's first journey to the Moon/
       |cRobert Kurson. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bRandom House,|c[2018] 
300    x, 372 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-356) and 
       index. 
520    In early 1968, the Apollo program was on shaky footing. 
       President Kennedy's end-of-decade deadline to put a man on
       the Moon was in jeopardy, and the Soviets were threatening
       to pull ahead in the space race. By August 1968, with its 
       back against the wall, NASA decided to scrap its usual 
       methodical approach and shoot for the heavens. With just 
       four months to prepare--a fraction of the normal time--the
       agency would send the first men in history to the Moon. In
       a year of historic violence and discord--the Tet offensive,
       the assassinations of MLK and RFK, the Chicago DNC riots--
       the Apollo 8 mission was the boldest test of what America 
       could do. With a focus on astronauts Frank Borman, Jim 
       Lovell, and Bill Anders, and their wives and children, 
       this is a vivid, gripping, you-are-there narrative that 
       shows anew the epic danger involved, and the singular 
       bravery it took, for man to leave Earth for the first time
       --and to arrive at a new world.  
600 10 Anders, William A.|q(William Alison),|d1933- 
600 10 Lovell, Jim. 
600 10 Borman, Frank,|d1928 March 14- 
610 20 Project Apollo (U.S.) 
610 20 Apollo 8 (Spacecraft) 
650  0 Space flight to the moon.