A review by crabbygirl
T-Minus: The Race to the Moon by Jim Ottaviani

3.0

putting a man on the moon is just a point of history of us - it's easy to lose the context of the moment. back then it seemed like an impossible feat. and in many ways it was. this idea of getting to the moon was largely a reaction to the Russian dominance over space: first dog, first man, first woman, first-you-name-it in space. the Soviets were launching rocket after rocket and Kennedy reacted with a wide pronouncement that America would get on the moon by the end of the decade. a huge goal; a concrete deadline.
the book is filled with names and events that have history but I'm not enough of a space geek to know them, just the wide strokes: Jim Lowell, Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Yuri Gagarin, the capsule fire, etc. but it's a great way to either learn more, or start off an exploration of this subject.