Koop Online Chariots for Apollo The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon – Charles R. Pellegrino

It began in the depths of the Cold War, with two nations hurtling steel chariots into the atmosphere, each vowing to be the first to the moon. Then, in 1961, John F. Kennedy challenged America — and from Long Island to Cape Canaveral, Houston to Huntsville, an army of engineers, scientists, bureaucrats and astronauts were swept up into the effort. Somehow, America would put a man on the moon’s surface and bring him back safely before the decade was over. But how? For eight frantic years the engineers would…