Shoot For The Moon

Author : James Donovan
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316341783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoot for the Moon written by James Donovan and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn why NASA astronaut Mike Collins calls this extraordinary space race story "the best book on Apollo": this inspiring and intimate ode to ingenuity celebrates one of the most daring feats in human history. When the alarm went off forty thousand feet above the moon's surface, both astronauts looked down at the computer to see 1202 flashing on the readout. Neither of them knew what it meant, and time was running out . . . On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. One of the world's greatest technological achievements -- and a triumph of the American spirit -- the Apollo 11 mission was a mammoth undertaking involving more than 410,000 men and women dedicated to winning the space race against the Soviets. Set amid the tensions and upheaval of the sixties and the Cold War, Shoot for the Moon is a gripping account of the dangers, the challenges, and the sheer determination that defined not only Apollo 11, but also the Mercury and Gemini missions that came before it. From the shock of Sputnik and the heart-stopping final minutes of John Glenn's Mercury flight to the deadly whirligig of Gemini 8, the doomed Apollo 1 mission, and that perilous landing on the Sea of Tranquility -- when the entire world held its breath while Armstrong and Aldrin battled computer alarms, low fuel, and other problems -- James Donovan tells the whole story. Both sweeping and intimate, Shoot for the Moon is "a powerfully written and irresistible celebration" of one of humankind's most extraordinary accomplishments (Booklist, starred review).

Author : Charles M. Schulz
Publisher : Simon Spotlight
ISBN 13 : 1534450637
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoot for the Moon, Snoopy! written by Charles M. Schulz and published by Simon Spotlight. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All systems are go as Snoopy prepares for an out-of-this-world adventure in this special storybook based on the Peanuts partnership with NASA! Snoopy, the world-famous astronaut, is preparing to go to the moon. He quickly realizes, though, that training for space is hard work…especially when Peppermint Patty and Marcie decide to become his personal coaches! Good grief! © 2019 Peanuts Worldwide LLC

Author : Frances O'Roark Dowell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416998608
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shooting the Moon written by Frances O'Roark Dowell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JAMIE THINKS HER FATHER CAN DO ANYTHING.... UNTIL THE ONE TIME HE CAN DO NOTHING. When twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter's brother joins the Army and is sent to Vietnam, Jamie is plum thrilled. She can't wait to get letters from the front lines describing the excitement of real-life combat: the sound of helicopters, the smell of gunpowder, the exhilaration of being right in the thick of it. After all, they've both dreamed of following in the footsteps of their father, the Colonel. But TJ's first letter isn't a letter at all. It's a roll of undeveloped film, the first of many. What Jamie sees when she develops TJ's photographs reveals a whole new side of the war. Slowly the shine begins to fade off of Army life - and the Colonel. How can someone she's worshipped her entire life be just as helpless to save her brother as she is? From the author of the Edgar Award-winning Dovey Coe comes a novel, both timely and timeless, about the sacrifices we make for what we believe and the people we love.

Author : Billie Letts
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0759511713
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoot the Moon written by Billie Letts and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's best-loved storytellers - the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Where the Heat Is - comes a tale of a small Oklahoma town and the mystery that has haunted its residents for years. In 1972, windswept DeClare, Oklahoma, was consumed by the murder of a young mother, Gaylene Harjo, and the disappearance of her baby, Nicky Jack. When the child's pajama bottoms were discovered on the banks of Willow Creek, everyone feared that he, too, had been killed, although his body was never found. Nearly thirty years later, Nicky Jack mysteriously returns to DeClare, shocking the town and stirring up long-buried memories. But what he discovers about the night he vanished is more astonishing than he or anyone could have imagine. Piece by piece, what emerges is a story of dashed hopes, desperate love, and a secret that still cries out for justice...and redemption.

Author : Evelyn Beilenson
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781441301673
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoot for the Moon written by Evelyn Beilenson and published by Peter Pauper Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our popular Charming Petites "TM" have eye-catching 4-color art and a wide array of subjects. Each has a 24K gold-plated or silver-plated charm to keep on the ribbon bookmark or to wear on a bracelet or necklace. Reach for the stars of happiness and success by letting your spirits soar. A great graduation gift!

Author : Meiji Stewart
Publisher : Keep Coming Back
ISBN 13 : 9780964734937
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoot for the Moon written by Meiji Stewart and published by Keep Coming Back. This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety eight short inspirational and motivational quotations, some with illustrations.

Author : Roger Warner
Publisher : Steerforth Italia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shooting at the Moon written by Roger Warner and published by Steerforth Italia. This book was released on 1996 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shooting at the Moon, Roger Warner chronicles a covert operation that used Hmong villagers as guerrilla fighters against the North during the Vietnamese War. Thought to be an expendable resource by Central Intelligence Agency strategists, the Hmong died by the thousands fighting the North Vietnamese. Those who survived were abandoned to their fate when the United States pulled out of the war. Warner's history is the moving and tragic story of how America's 'secret war' devastated its own allies in Southeast Asia.

Author : Richard Wiseman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781787474437
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoot for the Moon written by Richard Wiseman and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 20th July 1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon. We all recognize this to be one of mankind's greatest achievements. Yet what did it take to make John F. Kennedy's dream a reality? In this remarkable book, Professor Richard Wiseman presents a pioneering study of the mindset that took humanity to the Moon, and shows how you can harness and use it to achieve the extraordinary in your everyday life. Combining personal interviews, mission archives and cutting-edge psychology, Wiseman embarks on the ultimate voyage through inner space. Along the way he identifies eight key principles that make up the Apollo Mindset, including how pessimism is crucial to success, and how fear and tragedy can be transformed into hope and optimism. You will discover a series of practical techniques that you can use to incorporate these winning principles into both your professional and personal life. Whether you want to start a business venture, change careers, find your perfect partner, raise a loving family, get promoted, gain a new qualification, escape the rat race, or pursue a lifelong passion, these techniques will help you to reach your own Moon.

Author : Patti Brotherton
Publisher : Summerland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0982487002
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoot for the Moon written by Patti Brotherton and published by Summerland Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people who want to accomplish things too often lump goal setting in the same category as a New Year's Eve resolution, complete with the same absence of seriousness and commitment that's evolved into the butt of many jokes. But they're not the same. Consequently goal setting is something we've too often taken for granted. But, true goal setting is a challenging process that requires structure and planning complete with a beginning, middle and an end. In Shoot for the Moon Patti Brotherton not only provides the tools you need to accomplish any goal, large or small, she also provides a welcome inspiration by taking you on her own personal journey of successful goal setting that she first embraced as a child. Each chapter of Shoot for the Moon gives you a step-by-step map of how to move closer to and insure the challenges of your own goal setting journeys.

Author : Leopoldo Fernandez Pujals
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692802113
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoot for the Stars and You Will Land on the Moon written by Leopoldo Fernandez Pujals and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shoot for the Stars and You Will Land on the Moon, Leopoldo Fernández Pujals, the only Spanish entrepreneur who has led two companies into the prestigious Ibex 35 index on the Madrid Stock Exchange, shares his life experiences and shows how students, executives and those with ambition can achieve their dreams. Fernandez guides readers with wit, theory and real life examples to show how anyone with tenacity, effort and desire can become successful by overcoming the two great impediments to realizing their goals: fearitis and excusitis. Along the way, Mr. Fernandez shares many secrets to success including basic but often overlooked strategies for selling, keys to successful personnel management and detailed thought processes to ensure an executive stays on mission. Most important, Mr. Fernandez explains through stories and analysis why the most important goal for any company is to grow, with examples of how to overcome bumps in the road and recognize the difference between a legitimate need and an excuse. Shoot for the Stars is a life journey beginning with Leopoldo's hurried departure as a youth from Cuba to Miami, his education and starting a family before enlisting in the Army for the Vietnam War. Upon his return from war, Fernandez both stood out and struggled with corporate office politics as a young executive in Latin America and Spain. All this time, he dreams of opening his own business. This leads to the founding of Telepizza, the amazing stories behind its meteoric growth and struggles for control. The story concludes with lessons from the purchase of Jazztel: its rescue from insolvency amidst fierce competition from an industry giant, its growth from just 5,000 ADSL customers to one of the biggest telecommunications firms in Europe and its ultimate merger with Orange. Readers learn the keys to success as an entrepreneur and are equipped with knowledge so they too, can realize their dreams.