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Contents

Prologue: The Launch

Part One: An American Genesis

Chapter 1 The Strong of Arm

Chapter 2 The Strong of Spirit

Part Two: Tranquility Base

Chapter 3 First Child

Chapter 4 The Virtues of Smallville6

Chapter 5 Truth in the Air

Chapter 6 Aeronautical Engineering 101

Part Three: Wings of Gold

Chapter 7 Class 5-49

Chapter 8 Fighter Squadron 51

Chapter 9 Fate Is the Hunter

Chapter 10 The Ordeal of Eagles

Part Four: The Real Right Stuff

Chapter 11 The Research Pilot

Chapter 12 Above the High Desert

Chapter 13 At the Edge of Space

Chapter 14 The Worst Loss

Chapter 15 Higher Resolve

Chapter 16 I've Got a Secret

Part Five: No Man Is an Island

Chapter 17 Training Days

Chapter 18 In Line for Command

Chapter 19 Gemini VIII

Chapter 20 The Astronaut's Wife

Chapter 21 For All America

Part Six: Apollo

Chapter 22 Out of the Ashes

Chapter 23 Wingless on Luna

Chapter 24 Amiable Strangers

Chapter 25 First Out

Chapter 26 Dialectics of a Moon Mission

Part Seven: One Giant Leap

Chapter 27 Outward Bound

Chapter 28 The Landing

Chapter 29 One Small Step

Chapter 30 Return to Earth

Chapter 31 For All Mankind

Part Eight: Dark Side of the Moon

Chapter 32 Standing Ground

Chapter 33 To Engineer Is Human

Chapter 34 The Astronaut as Icon

Chapter 35 Into the Heartland

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index