Apollo - The Race to the Moon 

By Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox

Published by Secker and Warburg, London, 1989

First Edition, First Impression

With 31 black and white photographs

This the story of America's Apollo space projects of the 1960s, told from the perspective of the scientists, engineers and people at Mission Control who made the moon landing possible. 

This history of science is related in human terms, and aims to capture the drama of a critical era in world history. It begins with the group of engineers commissioned to build a space programme from scratch, and the experiments at Cape Canaveral which turned theory into practice. 

There are portraits of Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and many of the astronauts, and accounts of the success of Apollo 11 and disastrous failure of Apollo 13. Charles Murray is the author of the bestselling Losing Ground and In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government.

In blue hardcovers, with titles in white to the spine, in 507 pages, with the dustjacket. The Dustjacket: There is light shelfwear to some corners, and a clear tape repair to a short closed tear the top of the rear panel. There is no sunning to the spine of the dustjacket. There is no foxing. There is a small strip of whiteout of a previous name to the front blank endpaper. There are no chips or creases. It has not been price-clipped. The Book: There is light shelfwear. There are no previous owners' names or inscriptions. There is no sunning. There is a very infrequent spot of foxing. There is the usual light tanning to the page margins. The binding is solid and the block is firm. There are no missing, creased, loose, stained, or damaged pages. It is complete and original.

 Measures 16cm x 24cm x 4.5cm. 

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