Description: In 1961, in the depths of the Cold War, John F. Kennedy challenged America -- and from Long Island to Cape Canaveral, Houston to Huntsville, an army of engineers, scientists, bureaucrats, and astronauts were swept up into the effort: somehow, America would put a man on the moon's surface and bring him back safely before the decade was over. For eight frantic years the engineers would design and redesign, the scientists would argue, and brave men would trust their lives to virtually untested machinery. This dramatic chronicle of the race to the moon takes us behind the scenes of this awesome quest, into the minds of the people whose lives were devoted to it and changed by it, and through the missions themselves -- including the tragedy of Apollo 1 and the extraordinary near-disaster of Apollo 13.

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