Rocket Men (book), the Glossary
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon is a 2018 nonfiction book by Robert Kurson recounting NASA's 1968 Apollo 8 mission, which was the first crewed spacecraft to reach the Moon and return safely to Earth.[1]
Table of Contents
22 relations: Alfred Lansing, Apollo 8, C-SPAN, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Frank Borman, Into Thin Air, Jim Lovell, Jon Krakauer, Mary Roach, Moon, NASA, Non-fiction, Pirate Hunters, Random House, Robert Kurson, Scribe (publisher), Space Race, Spacecraft, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, William Anders.
- Apollo 8
- Books about the Apollo program
- Books about the history of science
- Cosmology books
- Frank Borman
- Jim Lovell
- Spaceflight books
- William Anders
Alfred Lansing
Alfred Mark Lansing (July 21, 1921 – August 27, 1975) was an American journalist and writer, best known for his book Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (1959), an account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic explorations.
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Apollo 8
Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. Rocket Men (book) and Apollo 8 are Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders.
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C-SPAN
Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service.
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, is a 1959 book written by Alfred Lansing, about the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, in its attempt to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914.
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Frank Borman
Frank Frederick Borman II (March 14, 1928 – November 7, 2023) was an American United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and businessman. Rocket Men (book) and Frank Borman are Apollo 8.
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Into Thin Air
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt.
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Jim Lovell
James Arthur Lovell Jr. (born March 25, 1928) is an American retired astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot and mechanical engineer. Rocket Men (book) and Jim Lovell are Apollo 8.
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Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer.
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Mary Roach
Mary Roach (born March 20, 1959) is an American author specializing in popular science and humor.
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Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
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Non-fiction
Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination.
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Pirate Hunters
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship is a New York Times best-selling non-fiction book by Robert Kurson recounting the discovery of the pirate ship the Golden Fleece by two American divers, John Chatterton and John Mattera, in Samaná Bay off the north coast of the Dominican Republic in 2008. Rocket Men (book) and pirate Hunters are Random House books.
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Random House
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.
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Robert Kurson
Robert A. Kurson (born April 18, 1963) is an American author, best known for his 2004 bestselling book, Shadow Divers, the true story of two Americans who discover a World War II German U-boat sunk 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey.
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Scribe (publisher)
Scribe Publications (or simply Scribe) is an independent publishing house founded by Henry Rosenbloom in Melbourne, Australia in 1976.
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Space Race
The Space Race (Космическая гонка) was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
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Spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
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William Anders
William Alison Anders (17 October 1933 – 7 June 2024) was an American United States Air Force (USAF) major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. Rocket Men (book) and William Anders are Apollo 8.
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See also
Apollo 8
- 8 Homeward
- Anders' Earthrise
- Apollo 8
- Apollo 8 Genesis reading
- Earthrise
- First to the Moon: The Journey of Apollo 8
- Frank Borman
- Jim Lovell
- Rocket Men (book)
- William Anders
Books about the Apollo program
- A Man on the Moon
- Carrying the Fire
- First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
- First on the Moon (Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin book)
- Magnificent Desolation (book)
- Moon Shot
- One Giant Leap (book)
- Rocket Men (book)
- The Women of Apollo
Books about the history of science
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Against Method
- Anatomy of an Epidemic
- Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
- Computer: A History of the Information Machine
- Conquest of Abundance
- Copeland's Cure
- Earth's Deep History
- Echoes of Life
- Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science
- Fields of Force
- Forces and Fields
- From Darwin to Hitler
- God's Philosophers
- Kuhn vs. Popper
- Leviathan and the Air-Pump
- Midnight in Chernobyl
- Misbehaving Science
- Periodic Tales
- Reinventing Discovery
- Revolution in Time
- Rocket Men (book)
- Science in History
- Seeds of Change (non-fiction book)
- Steps in the Scientific Tradition
- Tetrabiblos
- The Accidental Universe
- The Beginnings of Western Science
- The Fourth Paradigm
- The Growth of Biological Thought
- The Jewel House
- The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876
- The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
- The Penultimate Curiosity
- The Poisoner's Handbook
- The Quest for Power
- The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
- The Story of Modern Science
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- The Toadstool Millionaires
- The Turning Point (book)
- Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought
- War Against Smallpox
Cosmology books
- A Brief History of Time
- A Briefer History of Time (Hawking and Mlodinow book)
- A Universe from Nothing
- Accessory to War
- Alpha & Omega (book)
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- Big Bang (Singh book)
- Cosmology (book)
- Cosmos (Sagan book)
- Cycles of Time
- Death by Black Hole
- Existential Physics
- From Eternity to Here
- Higgs Discovery
- Knocking on Heaven's Door (book)
- On the Origin of Time
- Our Mathematical Universe
- Parallel Worlds (book)
- Rocket Men (book)
- Something Deeply Hidden
- The 4 Percent Universe
- The Big Picture (Carroll book)
- The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
- The Elegant Universe
- The Fabric of Reality
- The Fabric of the Cosmos
- The First Three Minutes
- The Grand Design (book)
- The Hidden Reality
- The Inflationary Universe
- The Oxford Companion to Cosmology
- The Particle at the End of the Universe
- The Quantum Universe
- The Road to Reality
- The Science of Interstellar
- The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time
- The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
- The Trouble with Gravity
- The Universe for Beginners
- The Universe in a Nutshell
- Until the End of Time (book)
- Warped Passages
- Welcome to the Universe
- Why Does the World Exist?
- Wonders of the Solar System (book)
- Wonders of the Universe (book)
- Wrinkles in Time
Frank Borman
- Apollo 8
- Apollo 8 Genesis reading
- Borman (crater)
- First to the Moon: The Journey of Apollo 8
- Frank Borman
- From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)
- Gemini 7
- Rocket Men (book)
Jim Lovell
- Apollo 13
- Apollo 13 (film)
- Apollo 8
- Apollo 8 Genesis reading
- Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center
- First to the Moon: The Journey of Apollo 8
- From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)
- Gemini 12
- Gemini 7
- Houston, we have a problem
- Jim Lovell
- Lost Moon
- Lovell (crater)
- Rocket Men (book)
Spaceflight books
- ...The Heavens and the Earth
- A Brief History of Rocketry in ISRO
- A Man on the Moon
- Bold They Rise
- Carrying the Fire
- Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir
- Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery
- Ever Upwards: ISRO in Images
- First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
- First on the Moon (Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin book)
- From Fishing Hamlet To Red Planet
- How to Make a Spaceship
- ISRO: A Personal History
- In the Shadow of the Moon (book)
- Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics
- Into That Silent Sea
- Introduction to Outer Space
- Lost Moon
- Magnificent Desolation (book)
- Martian Summer
- Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet
- Moongate (book)
- Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
- Of a Fire on the Moon
- One Giant Leap (book)
- Out of the Cradle (book)
- Packing for Mars
- Riding Rockets
- Rocket Men (book)
- The Complete Book of Outer Space
- The Conquest of Interplanetary Spaces
- The Conquest of Space
- The Conquest of Space (Lasser book)
- The Right Stuff (book)
- The Space Report
- Wege zur Raumschiffahrt
- Wheels Stop
William Anders
- Anders (crater)
- Anders' Earthrise
- Apollo 8
- Apollo 8 Genesis reading
- Earthrise
- First to the Moon: The Journey of Apollo 8
- From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)
- Heritage Flight Museum
- NASA Astronaut Group 3
- Rocket Men (book)
- The Astronaut Monument
- William Anders
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Men_(book)
Also known as Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon.