Volume 3: Fly Me to the Moon
America’s Project Apollo 1961-1965
In May 1961, newly elected U.S. President John F. Kennedy faced a problem: how to steal back the Soviet Union’s lead in the space race.
For the answer, Kennedy turned to German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and the fledgling NASA. With the Congress's blessing, America’s space agency embarked upon the one of the most audacious and technologically ambitious gambles of all time – to place a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. Could NASA’s scientists and engineers rise to the challenge, which involved building a rocket many times bigger than any yet seen?
Using original documents and expert analysis, Volume 3: Fly Me to the Moon focuses on one of the most fascinating, yet least understood, stories of the early space race: the quest to find the right configuration for Project Apollo, the enormous investment in infrastructure required to make it happen, and the USSR’s puzzling delay in rising to America’s challenge.
PLUS audio/video in the digital edition:
For the answer, Kennedy turned to German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and the fledgling NASA. With the Congress's blessing, America’s space agency embarked upon the one of the most audacious and technologically ambitious gambles of all time – to place a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. Could NASA’s scientists and engineers rise to the challenge, which involved building a rocket many times bigger than any yet seen?
Using original documents and expert analysis, Volume 3: Fly Me to the Moon focuses on one of the most fascinating, yet least understood, stories of the early space race: the quest to find the right configuration for Project Apollo, the enormous investment in infrastructure required to make it happen, and the USSR’s puzzling delay in rising to America’s challenge.
PLUS audio/video in the digital edition:
• Developing the Saturn 1
• JFK’s 1961 speech to Congress
• The USSR’s early Moon plan
• JFK tells America: “We go the the Moon…”
• Gemini’s launcher: the Titan II
• Training for Moonwalks
• Training for the Lunar Module
• Rendezvous at the Moon
• Saturn’s first launch
• Building the VAB
• Unmanned Gemini tests
• The USSR makes the first spacewalk
• JFK’s 1961 speech to Congress
• The USSR’s early Moon plan
• JFK tells America: “We go the the Moon…”
• Gemini’s launcher: the Titan II
• Training for Moonwalks
• Training for the Lunar Module
• Rendezvous at the Moon
• Saturn’s first launch
• Building the VAB
• Unmanned Gemini tests
• The USSR makes the first spacewalk
