Moon Shot. by Shepard, Alan and Slayton, Deke

Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Third Printing. Hardcover. 1878685546 . B & W photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 416 pages; [SIGNED] 1994 Turner Publishing. HC/DJ. 3rd printing. Alan Shepard's signature on a publisher supplied bookplate mounted to the front flyleaf. Bright, tight and neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $21.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Feels and appears generally unread. No marks. Illustrated with numerous b&w photos. About as new. NF/NF; Signed by Author .

A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed "To Chuck, Alan Shepard" on titlepage. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA's effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the twentieth century's greatest feat—landing humans on another world. Collaborating with NBC's veteran space reporter Jay Barbree, Shepard and Slayton narrate in gripping detail the story of America's space exploration from the time of Shepard's first flight until he and eleven others had walked on the moon.