One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon Audiobook (Free)

The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the normal Americans on the front lines from the epic mission to attain the moon.

President John F. Kennedy astonished the globe on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that america should land a guy for the Moon by 1970. No group was even more surprised compared to the researchers and designers at NASA, who abruptly had less than ten years to invent space travel.

When Kennedy announced that goal, no one knew how to navigate to the Moon. Nobody about One Large Leap: The Impossible Objective That Flew Us towards the Moon understood how to build a rocket big more than enough to reach the Moon, or how to build a computer small enough (and powerful enough) to soar a spaceship there. No-one knew what the top of Moon was like, or what astronauts could eat as they flew there. On the day of Kennedy’s historic speech, America got a complete of 15 minutes of spaceflight encounter—with just five of those minutes beyond your atmosphere. Russian dogs had additional time in space than U.S. astronauts. More than the next 10 years, a lot more than 400,000 scientists, engineers, and factory workers would send out 24 astronauts towards the Moon. Each hour of space air travel would require one million hours of work back on the planet to obtain America towards the Moon on July 20, 1969.

Fifty years later, One Large Leap may be the sweeping, definitive behind-the-scenes account from the furious race to comprehensive one of mankind’s best achievements. It’s a tale filled with surprises—from that the astronauts almost forgot to consider with them (the American flag), to the extraordinary impact Apollo would have back on the planet, and along the way we live today.

Charles Fishman introduces readers to the men and women who had to solve 10,000 problems before astronauts could reach the Moon. From the study labs of MIT, where in fact the eccentric and legendary pioneer Charles Draper created the tools to take a flight the Apollo spaceships, to the factories where dozens of women sewed spacesuits, parachutes, as well as computer hardware yourself, Fishman catches the extraordinary feats of the ordinary Americans. One Giant Leap is the fascinating story of men and women billed with changing the globe as we knew it—their market leaders, their triumphs, their near disasters, all of which led to probably the greatest achievement story, and the best adventure story, of the twentieth century.