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ePub edition August 2007 ISBN 9780061735899

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

ONE: Sputnik

TWO: The Early Days

THREE: The Astronauts

FOUR: First in Space

FIVE: John Glenn

SIX: On Orbit

PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERT

SEVEN: The Worst of Times

EIGHT: Gemini

NINE: “I’ve got a fire in the cockpit!”

TEN: A Christmas Moon

ELEVEN: The Secret Side of Space

TWELVE: Highway to the Moon

THIRTEEN: The Landing

FOURTEEN: Moon Walk

FIFTEEN: The Successful Failure

SIXTEEN: On the Moon

SEVENTEEN: After the Moon

EIGHTEEN: A Handshake in Space

NINETEEN: Down Home with Jimmy Carter

TWENTY: The Space Shuttle Era

TWENTY-ONE: Challenger : A Disaster

TWENTY-TWO: What Happened?

TWENTY-THREE: An Eternity of Descent

TWENTY-FOUR: Sudden Death

TWENTY-FIVE: How High Is Up?

TWENTY-SIX: As the Century Turned

TWENTY-SEVEN: Columbia : Had They Only Looked

TWENTY-EIGHT: That’s a Wrap!

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